How IL&FS used its subsidiary Kanak Resources for suspicious fund transfers

Manipulation, exploitation and eventual acquisition of Kanak Resource Management Limited has unearthed a raft of shady lending and borrowing ops

More evidence piles up every day about how the cash-strapped Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS) was misusing many of its 347 group entities, which formed an opaque and complex web, to move money around and put off the inevitable for nearly two years before the eventual default.

The Uday Kotak-led board needs to commission a forensic and compliance audit of shady entities of the IL&FS group to get a full picture of its dubious activities. Until then, we will keep finding individual examples of egregious wrongdoing. The manipulation, exploitation and eventual acquisition of Kanak Resource Management Limited (KRML) has unearthed