{"id":989244,"date":"2026-02-02T09:01:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989244"},"modified":"2026-02-02T09:12:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:42:34","slug":"fraud-cuffs-on-former-rcom-president-punit-garg-in-rs-40000-crore-bank-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/02\/fraud-cuffs-on-former-rcom-president-punit-garg-in-rs-40000-crore-bank-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraud cuffs on former RCOM president Punit Garg in Rs 40,000-crore bank scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Enforcement Directorate has arrested former Reliance Communications (RCOM) president Punit Garg on money laundering charges in connection with its ongoing probe into the alleged \u20b940,000-crore bank loan fraud involving the group companies of industrialist Anil Ambani. <\/p>\n<p>Garg was taken into custody on Thursday and a Delhi court sent him to nine days\u2019 ED custody, the agency said in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Enforcement Directorate has arrested former Reliance Communications (RCOM) president Punit Garg on money laundering charges in connection with its ongoing probe into the alleged \u20b940,000-crore bank loan fraud involving the group companies of industrialist Anil Ambani. Garg was taken into custody on Thursday and a Delhi court sent him to nine days\u2019 ED custody, the agency said in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,85,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}