CBI registers FIR in ICICI Bank-Videocon loan case

New Delhi, Jan 24 The CBI has registered a FIR in connection with alleged irregularities in the Rs 3,250 crore ICICI Bank-Videocon advance case and is completing inquiries Thursday at the group headquarters in Mumbai and workplaces in Aurangabad, authorities said.

The search operation began Thursday morning and furthermore secured workplaces of Nupower, a company operated by ICICI Bank's former CEO Chanda Kochhar's husband Deepak Kochhar and Supreme Energy, they said.

It is alleged that Videocon advertiser Venugopal Dhoot purportedly put crores of Rupees in Nupower months after the Videocon assemble got Rs 3,250 crore as advance from the ICICI Bank in 2012, they said.

The agency had registered a fundamental enquiry against Videocon advertiser Venugopal Dhoot, Deepak Kochhar and unidentified others in March a year ago, they said.

A PE is a precursor before the office holds up a FIR to probe criminal charges on the basis of evidence collected during the former exercise.

The office has now converted it into a FIR which implies an out and out examination has been begun by the agency after registration of a case.

The details of the FIR and names of the accused are awaited, they said.