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Bombay High Court had upheld the constitutional validity of Section 140(5) of the Companies Act but held that it would not apply to auditors who had resigned and also squashed the prosecution or the criminal complaints filed by the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) against the erstwhile auditors of Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Ltd (IL&FS) and its non-bank lending arm for alleged collusion in falsifying books terming it to be ‘ bad in law’.
F. No. Legal-35/3/2020 Government of India Ministry of Corporate Affairs 5th Floor, Shastri Bhavan, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Road, New Delhi-110001, Date: 06.03.2020 OFFICE ORDER Subject: Constitution of High Level Committee for preparation of Investigation manual for Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) With the approval of Competent Authority, a Committee with following composition is hereby constituted […]
During the last 3 years, 55 number of research reports prepared by Market Research and Analysis Unit (MRAU) have been submitted to the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA). 12 number of investigations have been assigned to Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO).
That during investigation it was revealed that IL&FS Financial Services Ltd. (hereinafter as ‘IFIN’) is one of the subsidiary companies of the IL&FS Group, whose investigation has also been ordered by MCA as stated above.
Mr. Neeraj Singhal, erstwhile Promoter and Managing Director of Bhushan Steel Limited was arrested by the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO). He was produced before the court of Competent Jurisdiction today and was sent to Judicial Custody till 14thAugust, 2018.
Government has established Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) to look into serious corporate frauds including Multi-National Companies (MNCs). The details of investigations assigned to SFIO are:
As you are aware, you to our organisation Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SF10) is a multi-disciplinary organization under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India, manned by experts in the fields of accountancy, forensic audit, general law, information technology, investigation, company law, capital market, Income Tax and Customs & Central Excise etc.
Section 211 set forth the provision for the power of the Central Government to establish an office to be called the Serious Fraud Investigation Office to investigate frauds relating to a company.
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs by Notification NO. S.O. 2751(E) Dated: 24th August, 2017 has notified that [1]Section 212 sub-section (8), (9) and (10) shall come into force w.e.f. 24.08.2017. MCA further vide [2]notification no. G.S.R. 1062(e) Dated: 24th August, 2017 has published rules called the Companies (Arrests in connection with Investigation by Serious Fraud Investigation Office) Rules, 2017.
In this piece of writing, author throws light on new concept introduced under Companies Act, 2013 (the Act) regarding of Establishment of Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) by Central Government and investigation of affairs of company by established SFIO & their powers to arrest the accused. Its laid down procedure and mechanism for conducting such investigations are briefly discussed in this article.
