Thursday 29 January 2015

LOIL GROUP - 3rd Largest NSEL Defaulter

LAKSHMI OVERSEAS INDUSTRIES LIMITED (LOIL GROUP)

Located in Punjab, Lakshmi Overseas Industries Limited (LOIL) Group is promoted by Balbir Singh Uppal.  Initially the company was incorporated under the name of Lakshmi Grain Processors Private Limited. Later, the Company was converted into Public Limited Company in 1993 and consequently the name was changed to Lakshmi Grain Processors (India) Ltd. Further the  company got its new name i.e. Lakshmi Overseas Industries Ltd (LOIL).

LOIL Group is the third largest NSEL Defaulter, owing Rs. 757 crores to National Spot Exchange Ltd (NSEL).  LOIL Foods Ltd and LOIL Health Foods Ltd, were incorporated on December 15, 1999, while LOIL Continental Foods Ltd incorporated on August 6, 1999 are the subsidiary firms of LOIL Group. As per media reports, LOIL Overseas Foods Ltd owes Rs 93 crore, LOIL Health Foods Ltd owes Rs 298 crore and LOIL Continental Foods Ltd owes Rs 366 crore in the NSEL crisis.

In November 2013, the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Mumbai police had issued summons to LOIL director Balbir Singh Uppal as part of the probe into the NSEL crisis, but to no avail. The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of  Mumbai Police had disclosed that it had frozen bank accounts worth Rs 1.1 crore and seized immovable assets worth Rs. 559 crore of the Lakshmi Overseas Industries Limited (LOIL) group chaired by Balbir Singh Uppal as part of its probe into the Rs. 5,600 crore commodities exchange crisis.


Details of several properties of LOIL Group which are secured for attachment by EOW, Crime Branch, CID, Mumbai Police are mentioned on the Exchange website. Some of the Groups assets includes five flats in posh localities of south Delhi, two shops in Naya Bazaar and an office on Kasturba Gandhi Marg in Delhi, besides the entire Laxmi Complex having rice mills and a captive power plant at Khamano on the Ludhiana National Highway.

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