Mr. Anil Dhirubhai Ambani, Chairman, Reliance Group. File | Picture credit score: Reuters
Reliance Group Chairman Anil Ambani on Monday (November 17, 2025) refused to seem earlier than the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for a second time within the Overseas Trade Administration Act (FEMA) case.
The businessman mentioned he was able to be eliminated earlier than the Federal Bureau of Investigation via a “digital courtroom look/recorded video” the primary time he missed a summons on November 14.
The ED rejected Ambani’s supply and issued recent summons on Monday (November 17). It’s unclear right now whether or not the company will problem a 3rd subpoena.
Proceedings underneath FEMA are civil in nature, not like legal proceedings underneath the Anti-Cash Laundering Act.
A spokesperson for the 66-year-old businessman mentioned in an announcement: “Mr. Anil D. Ambani has supplied to make a recorded assertion through digital look/recorded video at a date and time appropriate for ED.” The authorities have requested Mr. Ambani to seem in particular person on Friday (November 17, 2025) and report his assertion underneath FEMA, officers mentioned.
This research pertains to the Jaipur-Leangas expressway challenge.
In an earlier assertion, the ED mentioned that an investigation carried out in opposition to Reliance Infrastructure Ltd after the latest seizure of property price Rs 7,500 crore belonging to Mr. Ambani and his firms underneath the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act revealed that Rs 4,000 crore was allegedly “siphoned” from freeway tasks.
“The funds had been routed to Dubai via a shell firm based mostly in Surat. This route unearthed a broader worldwide hawala community price over Rs 600 crore,” the company mentioned.
“The ED has recorded the statements of assorted individuals, together with the alleged hawala sellers, following which it has determined to summon Mr. Ambani,” the official mentioned. Hawala refers back to the unlawful motion of funds, primarily in money. “This matter (FEMA lawsuit) dates again to 2010 and is 15 years previous. It issues points associated to street contractors,” the assertion mentioned.
“In 2010, Reliance Infrastructure Ltd. was awarded the EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Building) contract for the development of the JR Toll Street (Jaipur-Reengas Expressway),” the corporate mentioned.
“It is a purely home contract and there’s no international change part concerned. JR Toll Street is totally accomplished and partnered with Nationwide Highways Authority of India from 2021 onwards,” the assertion mentioned.
Mr. Ambani will not be a member of the Reliance Infrastructure Committee. “He labored for the corporate solely as an out of doors director for roughly 15 years from April 2007 to March 2022, and was not concerned in day-to-day administration in any respect.”
The businessman was as soon as questioned by ED authorities in a cash laundering case associated to an alleged financial institution fraud of Rs 17,000 crore in opposition to a gaggle firm.
