The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) issued notices to 21 companies, which allegedly received loans from public sector banks and financial institutions.
The move comes a day after the agency arrested the CEO of LIC Housing Finance and seven others in the multi-crore housing scam and trading of insider information on companies.
The central agency has asked these companies to provide all documents relating to the case. They been asked to explain the benefits they received and favours that were extended to the arrested officials by them.
The agency claims the companies that allegedly benefited from the scam include Mantri Realty, Sigrun, Entertainment World, Indore City Treasure, Lavasa, Ashapura Minechem, BGR Energy, OPG Group, Krishna Group, Suzlon, Emaar-MGF, MBDB, Gold Souk Project and Jaypee Group.
In the FIR registered by CBI in Mumbai, the agency claimed that Naresh Chopra, LIC's secretary (investment), leaked information about companies like Adani group, J P Hydro, JSW Power, Religare, DB Realty, Pantaloons, Adalite and MTech, that allegedly benefited from the scam.
At 9.51 am, LIC Housing Finance was trading at Rs1001, down by 5.40%, with a volume of 10.05 lakh shares on the BSE.
DB Realty was trading at Rs211.75, down by 9.99%, with a volume of 0.21 lakh shares on the BSE.
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