[ By Bobby Anthony ]A special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court has granted anticipatory bail to Yasmin Kapoor, a close aide of corporate lobbyist Deepak Talwar, who is a co-accused in an Air India related aviation scandal.Earlier, Yasmin Kapoor had moved the court in December 2019 seeking anticipatory bail anticipating arrest from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) which had...
A special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court has granted anticipatory bail to Yasmin Kapoor, a close aide of corporate lobbyist Deepak Talwar, who is a co-accused in an Air India related aviation scandal.
Earlier, Yasmin Kapoor had moved the court in December 2019 seeking anticipatory bail anticipating arrest from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) which had booked her.
Incidentally, Talwar has been accused of receiving several crores as kickbacks to act as a middleman to pay kickbacks to public servants and politicians, in order to make Air India give up profit-making routes and timings in favor of local and foreign private airlines.
Yasmin Kapoor stands accused of signing bogus checks to generate as well as launder proceeds of the crime as an “active aide” of Deepak Talwar.
The ED had produced an alleged phone recording between Kapoor and an “economic offender” claiming it to be “material information” but the PMLA court found little value in the ED’s claims.
Seeking custodial interrogation of Yasmin Kapoor, the ED argued that there is “reasonable apprehension of her, tampering with evidence and influencing witnesses” in the case, but Kapoor’s lawyer alleged that the ED sought her interrogation “to create false evidence”.
Kapoor’s lawyer also denied all allegations submitting that she has already joined the probe on numerous occasions, after which the PMLA court grant bail to her.
However, the ED is likely to appeal against the PMLA court’s order granting bail to Yasmin Kapoor.