The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a chargesheet in a Mumbai court against former ICICI Bank chief Chanda Kochhar, her husband Deepak Kochhar and Videocon Group MD Venugopal Dhoot in a fraud case. The court is yet to take cognizance of the chargesheet. According to people quoted by news agency PTI, the chargesheet or the prosecution complaint was filed on Tuesday under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

The ED had launched a probe into money laundering after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registered a case of corruption against the Kochhars. The CBI had initiated an inquiry in 2017 against the couple after allegations surfaced that ICICI had sanctioned a credit facility of about Rs