Anil Ambani skips ED summons second time in FEMA case, says able to depose just about

Reliance Group Chairman Anil Ambani refused to look earlier than the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) case for the second time on Monday (November 17, 2025).

The businessman stated he was able to depose earlier than the federal probe company by way of “virtual appearance/recorded video”, a press release he made when he skipped the summons the primary time on November 14.

The ED had rejected Mr. Ambani’s supply and issued him a contemporary summons for Monday (November 17). It was not clear if the company would situation a 3rd summons now.

Proceedings beneath the FEMA are civil in nature, as in opposition to the felony processes beneath the anti-money laundering legislation.

In a press release, a spokesperson of the 66-year-old businessman stated, “Mr. Anil D. Ambani has offered to make himself available for the recording of his statement, at any date and time suitable to ED, via virtual appearance/recorded video.” According to sources, the company had requested Mr. Ambani to look earlier than it in particular person on Friday (November 17, 2025) and document his assertion beneath the FEMA.

The investigation pertains to the Jaipur-Reengus freeway mission.

In an earlier assertion, the ED stated that after lately attaching belongings price ₹7,500 crore belonging to Mr. Ambani and his corporations beneath the anti-money laundering legislation, a search carried out in opposition to Reliance Infrastructure Ltd. discovered that ₹40 crore was allegedly “siphoned” from the freeway mission.

“Funds moved through Surat-based shell companies to Dubai. The trail has unearthed a wider international hawala network exceeding ₹600 crore,” the company stated.

“The ED has recorded the assertion of varied individuals, together with some alleged hawala sellers, following which they determined to summon Mr. Ambani,” the sources stated. Hawala denotes unlawful motion of funds, largely in money. “The matter (FEMA case) is 15 years old, dates to 2010. It concerns issues associated with a road contractor,” the assertion stated.

“In 2010, Reliance Infrastructure Ltd. awarded an EPC (engineering, procurement and building) contract to construct the JR Toll Road (Jaipur-Reengus freeway),” it stated.

“This was a purely domestic contract with no foreign exchange component involved whatsoever. The JR Toll Road has been fully completed and, from 2021 onwards, has been with the National Highways Authority of India,” the assertion stated.

Mr. Ambani shouldn’t be a member of the Board of Reliance Infrastructure. “He served the company for about 15 years, from April 2007 to March 2022, only as a non-executive director, and was never involved in day-to-day management of the company,” it stated.

The businessman has been questioned as soon as by the ED in a cash laundering case linked to an alleged ₹17,000-crore financial institution fraud in opposition to his group corporations.