The Enforcement Directorate on Friday said it has made a fresh and the third arrest in connection with a money laundering probe against businessman Anil Ambani’s group company Reliance Power linked to issuance of an alleged fake bank guarantee of Rs 68 crore.

ED arrests Amar Nath Dutta for aiding fake bank guarantees

Amar Nath Dutta, a resident of Kolkata, was taken into custody on Thursday under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). A special court sent him to ED custody till November 10, it said in a statement. The federal probe agency has arrested former Reliance Power CFO Ashok Kumar Pal and a private person Partha Sarathi Biswal, MD of an Odisha-based company named Biswal Tradelink, sometime back as part of this investigation.

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