Investigating the DHFL Scam in India: a letter to the Hindenburg Research Team

Posted on 01/02/2023

To

Hindenburg Research Team,

New York City

Sub: Investigating the DHFL Scam in India

Dear Hindenburg Research Team,

We are submitting a peculiar case related to man-made business-related financial abuse in India, viz., the bigger (the recently revealed Adani Group scam is the biggest scam–thanks to your tiresome research work) financial scam of India. We wish your firm to check the facts related to the Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Limited (DHFL), which was put under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (2016) in December, 2019. The shadow bank was deliberately handed over to Piramal Finance aka Piramal Capital and Housing Finance (PCHF) through a transparently opaque or obfuscated resolution process, which is later on branded as “illegal”, “irregular” by the highest quasi judicial body in India, viz. National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT). 

We are attaching herewith all the documents published on our website. The following questions are to be checked in connection to the said documents:

1.     The hostile takeover of DHFL by Mr. Ajay Piramal (secondary kin of another business tycoon, Mukesh Ambani, a favoured client of  the hon. Prime Minister of India and obviously patronized by the ruling party, just like Mr. Adani) is still sub-judice or under adjudication. In these circumstances, How can Piramal claim the ownership status of DHFL while the matter is still awaiting the apex court and International Court (OHCHR, Singapore International Arbitration Centre etc.)’s verdicts?

2.     Piramal is also spreading the (fake?) news of his ownership of the DHFL through different print and social media by using dubious names simultaneously: Piramal Capital and Housing Finance (PCHF) and Piramal Finance. Which one of these names is the actual name of Piramal’s housing finance company?  (Cf. The Dilemma of schizophrenic selves: the changing names of companies under the Piramal Group: A letter to Mr. Ajay Piramal VIEW HERE ⤡)

3.     It is also found that the collapse of DHFL is due to alleged terror-funding/political charity/political donation through the channel of Dawood Ibrahim-Iqbal Mirchi-RKW Developers (Dheeraj Realty)-DHFL-BJP. Does the allegation have proper grounds? (It is redundant to say to you that the donations made to the PM CARES Fund or Electoral Bonds are totally opaque. No RTI or Right To Information application can be filed to know the whereabouts of the two.)  Please check the facts published across different media platforms.

Relevant documents that contain elaborate discussion on the above matter are given as follows:

·        A WHITE PAPER ON THE DEWAN HOUSING FINANCE CORPORATION LTD. (DHFL)VIEW HERE ⤡

·        THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE DHFL SCAM VIEW HERE ⤡

·        FALSE ALLEGATIONS ON THE COLLUSION AMONG THE BJP, DAWOOD-MIRCHI AND THE DHFL: A LETTER TO THE BJP PRESIDENT VIEW HERE ⤡ (Sarcasm intended under Plutocracy) 

·        AN RTI ON THE ALLEGED COLLUSION AMONG DAWOOD-MIRCHI-RKW-DHFL-BJP VIEW HERE ⤡

·        WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DECEPTIVE AUDITING OF THE DHFL? AN RTI TO THE CAG OF INDIA VIEW HERE 

·        AN RTI ON “WHO OWNS DHFL NOW: PCHF OR PIRAMAL FINANCE?” VIEW HERE ⤡·

·        An RTI to the Department of Legal Affairs regarding the disputed ownership status of the DHFL VIEW HERE ⤡ 

·        You’re all caught up: RBI-appointed CoC for DHFL VIEW HERE ⤡

This is also to inform you that:

A. The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) first order (19/05/2021) asked the DHFL Committee of Creditors (CoC) to reconsider DHFL’s erstwhile promoter Kapil Wadhawan’s offer to repay the full amount to the creditors and answer it within a stipulated time period of 10 days. However, Piramal and the CoC did not heed the verdict and got the same revoked at the NCLAT (25/05/2021). Was it not a contempt of court?

B. The NCLAT Second Verdict (27/01/2022) questioned the very legitimacy of the CoC and its approved resolution plan and clearly identified certain irregularities cum illegalities in the Piramal’s Resolution Plan. The NCLAT Second order was stayed at the Supreme Court of India on 12/04/2022 after Piramal made an initial appeal against the said order on 01/03/2022.

On account of the above state of affairs, thousands of senior citizens, physically challenged persons and widows (all of them are either FD and NCD Holders of DHFL) are going through an immense amount of suffering.

We sincerely believe that your commitment towards exposing financial scams will be helpful in our case as well. We hope that you would take necessary action in this regard as you have pertinently taken in the case of the Adani Group. 

Thanking you in anticipation,

Yours Sincerely,

Dr. Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay

Mrs. Rupa Bandyopadhyay

Mr. Akhar Bandyopadhyay

11 Comments

  1. Reblogged this on debaprasad and commented:

    #Seize_Cronies_Fairplay_for_DHFL_Victims
    #Stop_Piramal_From_Acquiring_DHFL
    #alleged_dawood_mirchi_rkw_dhfl_bjp_collusion

  2. ravindramahidhar says:

    Sir,

    Hats off to you for knocking the right doors at international level and I am extremely happy & hopeful for fruitful results. You were so long approaching all Indian authorities by extreme hardworking but all of them were either purchased or threatened by ruling party and as a result your restless efforts could not fetch desired results.

    Let us hope for positive outcome and pray almighty God to help us in getting back our hard-earned money with full interest & justified compensation.

    Regards,

  3. Kirit Doshi says:

    Pl help us we have lost our hard earned money in dhfl it’s reatee by AAA COMPANY BY REATING AGENCY
    My whole family money lost my father age 94 years i my self senior citizen

  4. Reblogged this on Akhar Bandyopadhyay and commented:

    #Seize_Cronies_Fairplay_for_DHFL_Victims
    #Stop_Piramal_From_Acquiring_DHFL
    #alleged_dawood_mirchi_rkw_dhfl_bjp_collusion

  5. ravindramahidhar says:

    Tried to post this comments in our website but not sure whether I got success.

    Sir,

    Hats off to you for knocking the right doors at international level and I am extremely happy & hopeful for fruitful results. You were so long approaching all Indian authorities by extreme hardworking but all of them were either purchased or threatened by ruling party and as a result your restless efforts could not fetch desired results.

    Let us hope for positive outcome and pray almighty God to help us in getting back our hard-earned money with full interest & justified compensation.

    Regards,

  6. Reblogged this on Partyless Society and commented:
    #Seize_Cronies_Fairplay_for_DHFL_Victims
    #art_of_resistance_against_autocracy
    #Stop_Piramal_From_Acquiring_DHFL
    #alleged_dawood_mirchi_rkw_dhfl_bjp_collusion

  7. Reblogged this on DHFL Scam and commented:
    #Seize_Cronies_Fairplay_for_DHFL_Victims
    #art_of_resistance_against_autocracy
    #Stop_Piramal_From_Acquiring_DHFL
    #alleged_dawood_mirchi_rkw_dhfl_bjp_collusion

  8. Ishan Ajitnarayan Chakrabarty says:

    Please 🙏 Save My Mom Her 15 lakhs INRLifetime Savings have been looted by Piramal.

    1. Ishan Ajitnarayan Chakrabarty says:

      Please 🙏 Save us Hiddenburg

  9. ravindramahidhar says:

    Sir,

    As DHFL scam is known almost to all political parties, TV channels and investors who are keeping track of all commercial updates and even if Hindenburg exposes it, it may not force ruling party to take suitable actions to repay our dues.

    I therefore, suggest we can modify our letter to Hindenburg to EXPOSE REASON OF RULING PARTY’S SILENCE (who has proved them as MAIN CULPRIT & not Wadhwans or Piramals) in following areas :

    (1) INTENTIONAL NON CO-OPERATIVE ATTITUDE towards DHFL FD HOLDERS since beginning by NOT REPLYING TO ANY OF OUR APPEALS.

    (2) Allowing COC handing over DHFL to Wadhwans ILLEGALLY IGNORING interests of FD/NCD holders.

    (3) TIED UP hands of all concerned viz. RBI, Finance & Law Ministries,NCLT, NCLAT by not allowing them to intervene and ensure FAIR DEALING, & finally SC to keep our cases in COLD STORAGE for indefinite period.

    (4) To enforce ruling party to EXPEDITE LEGAL RESOLUTION to avoid further delay as all of us are moving towards DEATH everyday one day is reduced from our life and even if we win, person like me (childless widower senior citizen) can not get benefit because cannot claim money after death.

    (5) SC’s judgement even if it further delayed and even if it will be in our favor, it will be TOTALLY MEANINGLESS for me (after my death)

    Regards,

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