Forensic audit of asset dissipation permits scrutiny of banks and corporate facilitators in foreign-award execution.

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....Forensic audit was ordered to trace the dissipation of promoter shareholding and other assets represented as available to satisfy a foreign arbitral award. Conflicting accounts concerning share transfers, loans, pledges, top-up arrangements, encumbrances, and use of proceeds required factual reconstruction rather than resolution on existing material. The audit extends to concerned entities, banks and financial institutions, notwithstanding the decree holder's later request to exclude banks, because they may have assisted in breach of court orders. Separate corporate personality does not prevent examination of a listed company's possible knowledge, facilitation, and regulatory compliance where common controllers may have used the structure to frustrate execution. The audit determines no present liability; consequential issues remain open.....