Tag: money-laundering

  • Delhi court denies interim bail to Arvind Kejriwal

    A local court on Wednesday dismissed a plea filed by Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal seeking interim bail for seven days on health grounds.The court observed that extensive poll campaigning and meetings held by Kejriwal during the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls show that he was not suffering from any serious or life threatening ailments. The court also revived the AIIMS medical board constituted earlier by it to examine Kejriwal.The court has asked the medical board to conduct medical tests as it deems appropriate within three days.Kejriwal had petitioned the court seeking interim bail on the ground that he had to undergo certain medical tests. The court, however, directed the concerned authorities to conduct the required medical tests of the Aam Aadmi Party chief.AllUttar PradeshMaharashtraTamil NaduWest BengalBiharKarnatakaAndhra PradeshTelanganaKeralaMadhya PradeshRajasthanDelhiOther StatesThe court is scheduled to take up Kejriwal’s regular bail plea on June 7. Kejriwal returned to Tihar Jail on June 2 as directed by the Supreme Court which had granted him interim bail allowing him to campaign for the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls. Kejriwal was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), in March under relevant provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) for his alleged role in the Delhi excise policy case.

  • “BJP trying to send everyone behind bars”: AAP leader Gopal Rai hits out at BJP

    New Delhi: Delhi Minister and AAP leader Gopal Rai took a jab at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday and accused the BJP of misusing central agencies.

    He said that the BJP is trying to send everyone behind bars so that no one can raise questions about the party.

    “BJP is not talking about electoral bonds, they hid a lot of things in the past 10 years, including how they misused central agencies, conducted raids and collected donations. Even goons don't do this type of vasooli. Now the truth is out According to me, nobody in this country has ever done such a big scam, by misusing central agencies,” said the AAP leader.”The BJP needs to tell the truth to the people and because of this fear, the BJP is trying to send everyone behind bars so that nobody will ask any questions. The BJP can get political leaders locked up but not people. They will seek answers,” added Rai.

    Earlier in the day, after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal skipped the ED summons, Gopal Rai accused the BJP of pressuring the probe agencies to send summons to the AAP chief.

    “The summons are politically motivated. ED and CBI send summons due to pressure from the BJP. The Delhi CM has time and again said that it is illegal. ED approached the court, saying that the summons was legal. The court granted bail to Arvind Kejriwal). Why are they so restless to send summonses again and again. Let the court decide if it is illegal or legal,” Gopal Rai told on Monday.This came after Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party convenor Arvind Kejriwal did not appear before. the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) in connection with the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) money laundering probe on Monday.Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janata Party lashed out at the Delhi CM and said that the Delhi Jal Board case is bigger than the liquor scam.

    Kejriwal has so far skipped eight previous summons issued by the ED in the Delhi Excise Policy case on March 4, February 26, February 19, February 2, January 18, January 3, November 2 and December 22, calling them “illegal and politically motivated. .”

    The ED wants to record Kejriwal's statement in the case on issues like the formulation of policy, meetings held before it was finalized, and allegations of bribery.

  • Soren undertook ‘blatant’ misuse of power: ED tells PMLA court

    Ranchi, The ED on Wednesday produced WhatsApp chat records between former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren and a close associate where information related to transfer and posting of state government officials involving “huge amount of money” is alleged to have been discussed. The Enforcement Directorate made the submission before a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in Ranchi while producing the 48yearold JMM leader on the expiry of his fiveday remand.

    After the ED informed the court of Special Judge Dinesh Rai that its investigation against Soren was “not restricted” to alleged fraudulent acquisition of a 8.5 acres land in Ranchi by him, but there are “several other properties linked to him (Soren)”, the court extended his custody by five days.

    Soren was arrested by the ED on January 31 from the Raj Bhavan after about seven hours of his questioning at his official residence at Kanke Road here. He resigned as the CM before the agency took him under custody. The ED told the court that during the time Soren was in its custody, “details of several other properties have also emerged, to which the accused person Shri Hemant Soren is neither divulging true information in his knowledge nor showing cooperation”.

    The federal agency said it was also undertaking raids in this case on Wednesday and it wanted to confront Soren with Bhanu Pratap Prasad, a revenue department subinspector, whom it has arrested in this case for allegedly conspiring with the former CM for allegedly acquiring 12 plots of land measuring about 8.5 acres.

    It informed the court that Soren was confronted with WhatsApp chats between him and his close associate Binod Singh which it claimed were “highly incriminating and contain details of several properties and had several confidential documents”. These chats “not only include exchange of confidential information regarding several properties but other incriminating information relating to transfer and posting, sharing of government records, etc., out of which huge amount of money appears to have been generated and transacted”. The agency claimed that Binod Singh also had WhatsApp chats with several other persons regarding transfer and posting of officials and sharing of several admit cards of students appearing for competitive exams held by the Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission.

    While appending some pictures of the WhatsApp exchanges between Soren and Binod Singh, the ED said these were only “a few samples” and such conversations run in over 530 pages.

    The ED said it requested the politician to produce the mobile phone on which he had conversations with Binod Singh but he “deliberately” did not furnish the device to “conceal facts and stall investigation relating to suspected proceedings of crime”.

    “The proceeds of crime acquired by him is not only restricted to the investigation of the property measuring 8.5 acres but there are several other properties linked to him (Soren) and investigation to identify the said proceeds of crime and its trail of money is essentially required at this stage,” the agency said.

    The ED, seeking further remand of Soren, told the court that Soren undertook “blatant misuse of power in hampering and frustrating the evidence” linked to the 8.5 acre measuring immovable asset.

    The agency said it issued the first summons to Soren for questioning on August 8, 2023 and called him for recording of his statement six days later on August 14.

    It claimed that a man identified as Raj Kumar Pahan filed a petition before the circle officer of Baragai in Ranchi on August 16 saying some people have got illegal ‘jamabandi’ (documents of legal rights) of his land and requested the authorities to save his land. .

    The land was resorted to Pahan on January 29 this year even as the agency said it was conducting raids in this case in Delhi that day, the ED said.

    It was alleged by the agency before the court that it seized documents related to this 8.5 acre land from the cupboard of Soren’s room that is located in a Delhi house.

    The agency also said that when it conducted the survey of this land in April last year, it met a ‘chowkidar’ (caretaker) posted at the property named Santosh Munda who told its officials that Soren and his wife Kalpana visited the property “two three times”.

    It is evident, the ED said, Soren “acquired proceedings of crime and also indulged in corrupt practice and misuse of position for destruction of evidence in order to conceal the proceeds of crime acquired by him to keep himself away from the property measuring 8.5 acres” .

    The agency also told the court that as Soren was taken to the Jharkhand assembly on February 5 and therefore a “substantial time passed out in arrangements and bringing him back to its office for investigation”.

    The ED sought Soren’s enhanced custody to “ascertain the source of funds” through which the said land was acquired and to confront him and other accused.

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  • Delhi Liquor Policy Case: ED moves court after Arvind Kejriwal skips 5th summons, hearing on Feb 7

    Enforcement Directorate has moved to Rouse Avenue Court and filed a complaint against Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal for not complying with the summons issued by the agency in the Delhi liquor policy money laundering case. Court heard some submissions today and put up for February 7, for the remaining submissions and consideration.

  • hemant soren ED Case: In mail to ED, Hemant Soren says its insistence on questioning him again before Jan 31 reeks of malice

    Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren has charged the Enforcement Directorate of being “motivated by political agenda” to disrupt the state government’s functioning and claimed that its insistence to record his statement again on or before January 31 reeked of malice. In an email to the federal agency, the 48yearold JMM executive president alleged that the issuance of summons to him was “wholly vexatious and in colourable exercise of powers given by the statute.”

    “Preserve video recording of sevenhour questioning (of January 20) to make available to the Court of Law,” Soren said in the email sent on Sunday, while agreeing to record his statement on January 31 at 1 pm at his residence.

    The federal agency had questioned Soren at his official residence in Ranchi on January 20 in the alleged land fraud case and had issued a fresh summons to him asking him to confirm his availability for questioning on either January 29 or January 31, the sources said. The chief minister left for the national capital on January 27 night while his scheduled government events in the state on Monday were canceled without any explanation.

    An Enforcement Directorate team on Monday visited his Delhi residence in connection with a money laundering investigation.

  • Kejriwal, Omar Abdullah, D Raja slam Tamil Nadu minister’s arrest by ED 

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR: Tamil Nadu Electricity Minister V Senthil Balaji’s arrest by the Enforcement Directorate has drawn sharp reactions from a number of opposition leaders, who accused the ruling BJP of concentrating on rival celebration leaders.

    Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, CPI common secretary D Raja and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and National Conference chief Omar Abdullah are amongst those that have slammed the Tamil Nadu minister’s arrest.

    The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Balaji underneath the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA)after a protracted session of questioning, officers stated, even because the 47-year-old minister was admitted to a metropolis authorities hospital after he complained of uneasiness.

    Addressing a press convention, Kejriwal and Raja on Wednesday condemned Balaji’s arrest saying Opposition-ruled states have been being focused by central probe companies like CBI and ED.

    “CBI and ED should be renamed as ‘BJP’s Army’. We condemn the raid and arrest of a minister in Tamil Nadu. The manner in which the arrest has been made is also very objectionable,” Kejriwal stated.

    “ED and CBI are not going after corrupt people anymore, all corrupt people are getting refuge in BJP,” the AAP chief stated.

    “There was a time when these investigative companies have been revered.

    When they used to raid someplace or arrest somebody, it appeared that individual should have completed one thing mistaken.

    Today, these companies have grow to be solely political weapons of BJP,” he stated.

    Kejriwal added that BJP would nonetheless not win any seats in Tamil Nadu.

    Raja, in the meantime, identified that the raid happened a couple of days after Union Home Minister Amit Shah claimed the BJP would win 25 Lok Sabha seats throughout a go to to Tamil Nadu.

    “It’s highly objectionable that ED can go inside the Secretariat. If the BJP thinks they can win seats in Tamil Nadu by doing this, they are living in a fool’s paradise. Tamil Nadu will not allow BJP,” he stated.

    “After the Karnataka elections, the discontent of individuals towards BJP is seen, and the BJP has grow to be determined.

    That is why they’re doing unconstitutional issues,” he added.

    Meanwhile, Jammu and Kashmir-based National Conference (NC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) additionally condemned the arrest and stated they stood in solidarity with the DMK and Balaji.

    NC vp Omar Abdullah slammed ED sleuths’ “behaviour” in the course of the arrest.

    “Tell me wherein state has this not occurred and which political celebration has not confronted it.

    It has grow to be a small worth we pay for being in politics,” Abdullah informed reporters at Magam in central Kashmir Budgam district.

    “We strongly condemn the way in which they (ED personnel) behaved with the minister.

    Today the medical stories present that he has three most important arteries are blocked and he wants a bypass surgical procedure.

    I believe the central authorities and these companies ought to rethink about their behaviour,” Abdullah added.

    NC spokesperson Imran Nabi Dar stated there was a rising concern over the “escalation in targeting” of opposition leaders.

    On being requested if the ED motion on Balaji was a part of a sample, which included the questioning of NC president Farooq Abdullah, Dar stated it was a “political witch-hunt”.

    “If there was any micro-element of involvement of Abdullah, there would have been sufficient proof to chargesheet him, however there may be none.

    If the companies have something substantial with them, they need to carry it to the general public area,” he stated.

    “But, when it is a political witch-hunt, the NC will always raise its voice because this is a concern that actually targets the democracy, the very basic routes of democracy in the country,” the NC spokesperson stated.

    The PDP stated central companies have been first “weaponised” in J&Ok and later replicated in the remainder of the nation.

    PDP spokesperson Najmus Saqib stated the central authorities has grow to be a risk to its personal establishments.

    “This is for the first time in the history of India that we see a government becoming a threat to its institutions,” Saqib stated.

    Saqib additionally stated that the BJP’s earlier name for a “Congress-mukt Bharat” has now prolonged to eliminating “every regional party and all kinds of opposition”.

    “There is a critical assault on each establishment and it is a make-or-break second for India.

    If there’s a critical recession within the democratic beliefs of the nation, I believe, we’re in for large bother,” he added.

    NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR: Tamil Nadu Electricity Minister V Senthil Balaji’s arrest by the Enforcement Directorate has drawn sharp reactions from a number of opposition leaders, who accused the ruling BJP of concentrating on rival celebration leaders.

    Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, CPI common secretary D Raja and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and National Conference chief Omar Abdullah are amongst those that have slammed the Tamil Nadu minister’s arrest.

    The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Balaji underneath the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA)after a protracted session of questioning, officers stated, even because the 47-year-old minister was admitted to a metropolis authorities hospital after he complained of uneasiness.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Addressing a press convention, Kejriwal and Raja on Wednesday condemned Balaji’s arrest saying Opposition-ruled states have been being focused by central probe companies like CBI and ED.

    “CBI and ED should be renamed as ‘BJP’s Army’. We condemn the raid and arrest of a minister in Tamil Nadu. The manner in which the arrest has been made is also very objectionable,” Kejriwal stated.

    “ED and CBI are not going after corrupt people anymore, all corrupt people are getting refuge in BJP,” the AAP chief stated.

    “There was a time when these investigative companies have been revered.

    When they used to raid someplace or arrest somebody, it appeared that individual should have completed one thing mistaken.

    Today, these companies have grow to be solely political weapons of BJP,” he stated.

    Kejriwal added that BJP would nonetheless not win any seats in Tamil Nadu.

    Raja, in the meantime, identified that the raid happened a couple of days after Union Home Minister Amit Shah claimed the BJP would win 25 Lok Sabha seats throughout a go to to Tamil Nadu.

    “It’s highly objectionable that ED can go inside the Secretariat. If the BJP thinks they can win seats in Tamil Nadu by doing this, they are living in a fool’s paradise. Tamil Nadu will not allow BJP,” he stated.

    “After the Karnataka elections, the discontent of individuals towards BJP is seen, and the BJP has grow to be determined.

    That is why they’re doing unconstitutional issues,” he added.

    Meanwhile, Jammu and Kashmir-based National Conference (NC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) additionally condemned the arrest and stated they stood in solidarity with the DMK and Balaji.

    NC vp Omar Abdullah slammed ED sleuths’ “behaviour” in the course of the arrest.

    “Tell me wherein state has this not occurred and which political celebration has not confronted it.

    It has grow to be a small worth we pay for being in politics,” Abdullah informed reporters at Magam in central Kashmir Budgam district.

    “We strongly condemn the way in which they (ED personnel) behaved with the minister.

    Today the medical stories present that he has three most important arteries are blocked and he wants a bypass surgical procedure.

    I believe the central authorities and these companies ought to rethink about their behaviour,” Abdullah added.

    NC spokesperson Imran Nabi Dar stated there was a rising concern over the “escalation in targeting” of opposition leaders.

    On being requested if the ED motion on Balaji was a part of a sample, which included the questioning of NC president Farooq Abdullah, Dar stated it was a “political witch-hunt”.

    “If there was any micro-element of involvement of Abdullah, there would have been sufficient proof to chargesheet him, however there may be none.

    If the companies have something substantial with them, they need to carry it to the general public area,” he stated.

    “But, when it is a political witch-hunt, the NC will always raise its voice because this is a concern that actually targets the democracy, the very basic routes of democracy in the country,” the NC spokesperson stated.

    The PDP stated central companies have been first “weaponised” in J&Ok and later replicated in the remainder of the nation.

    PDP spokesperson Najmus Saqib stated the central authorities has grow to be a risk to its personal establishments.

    “This is for the first time in the history of India that we see a government becoming a threat to its institutions,” Saqib stated.

    Saqib additionally stated that the BJP’s earlier name for a “Congress-mukt Bharat” has now prolonged to eliminating “every regional party and all kinds of opposition”.

    “There is a critical assault on each establishment and it is a make-or-break second for India.

    If there’s a critical recession within the democratic beliefs of the nation, I believe, we’re in for large bother,” he added.

  • Tejashwi calls ED’s ‘Rs 600 crore crime proceeds’ declare rumours, says make panchnama public

    By PTI

    PATNA: Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday dubbed as “rumours” the declare of the Enforcement Directorate that proceeds of crime amounting to Rs 600 crore had been detected throughout searches on premises owned by him and shut members of the family.

    The RJD chief, who’s at present away in Delhi beside his spouse who’s anticipating their first baby, additionally stated the BJP might be left embarrassed if he made public the “panchnama” (seizure listing) signed after the raids.

    “Just recall, in 2007, transactions worth Rs 8,000 crore, including a mall and hundreds of land plots, were alleged”, tweeted Yadav, in an apparent reference to the alleged land-for-hotels rip-off pertaining to his father Lalu Prasad’s tenure because the railway minister.

    Now going through the warmth within the land-for-jobs ‘rip-off’ pertaining to, roughly, the identical interval, Yadav additionally recalled his identify being linked to a mall seized in Gurugram, which turned out to be owned by a personal firm.

    The RJD had threatened authorized motion towards media retailers for “wrongly” reporting that Yadav, the get together supremo’s son and inheritor obvious, owned the industrial institution.

    ALSO READ | Land for jobs ‘rip-off’: Tejashwi skips CBI questioning, seeks recent date

    “The BJP government (at the Centre) spreading rumours again, quoting sources. It should have asked its spin doctors to first settle the account on the previous operations, before coming up with the new tale of Rs 600 crore”, the RJD chief stated.

    Earlier within the day, the Enforcement Directorate stated it has seized “unaccounted cash” of Rs 1 crore and “detected proceeds of crime worth Rs 600 crore” after it raided RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s household in reference to a cash laundering case linked to the railways land-for-jobs ‘rip-off’.

    “Let them make public the panchnama (seizure list) signed after the raids. If we do so on our own, think of the embarrassment that these BJP leaders will have to face”, added Yadav, who peppered his two tweets with fairly a number of smileys to claim that he was taking all of it on the chin.

    The ED had launched raids on Friday at a number of areas linked to Prasad’s members of the family, together with that of his son Tejashwi in Delhi.

    The Central Bureau of Investigation had not too long ago questioned Prasad and his spouse Rabri Devi — former chief ministers of Bihar — within the case.

    ALSO READ: Lalu livid over pregnant daughter-in-law’s harassment throughout ED raids

    PATNA: Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday dubbed as “rumours” the declare of the Enforcement Directorate that proceeds of crime amounting to Rs 600 crore had been detected throughout searches on premises owned by him and shut members of the family.

    The RJD chief, who’s at present away in Delhi beside his spouse who’s anticipating their first baby, additionally stated the BJP might be left embarrassed if he made public the “panchnama” (seizure listing) signed after the raids.

    “Just recall, in 2007, transactions worth Rs 8,000 crore, including a mall and hundreds of land plots, were alleged”, tweeted Yadav, in an apparent reference to the alleged land-for-hotels rip-off pertaining to his father Lalu Prasad’s tenure because the railway minister.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Now going through the warmth within the land-for-jobs ‘rip-off’ pertaining to, roughly, the identical interval, Yadav additionally recalled his identify being linked to a mall seized in Gurugram, which turned out to be owned by a personal firm.

    The RJD had threatened authorized motion towards media retailers for “wrongly” reporting that Yadav, the get together supremo’s son and inheritor obvious, owned the industrial institution.

    ALSO READ | Land for jobs ‘rip-off’: Tejashwi skips CBI questioning, seeks recent date

    “The BJP government (at the Centre) spreading rumours again, quoting sources. It should have asked its spin doctors to first settle the account on the previous operations, before coming up with the new tale of Rs 600 crore”, the RJD chief stated.

    Earlier within the day, the Enforcement Directorate stated it has seized “unaccounted cash” of Rs 1 crore and “detected proceeds of crime worth Rs 600 crore” after it raided RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s household in reference to a cash laundering case linked to the railways land-for-jobs ‘rip-off’.

    “Let them make public the panchnama (seizure list) signed after the raids. If we do so on our own, think of the embarrassment that these BJP leaders will have to face”, added Yadav, who peppered his two tweets with fairly a number of smileys to claim that he was taking all of it on the chin.

    The ED had launched raids on Friday at a number of areas linked to Prasad’s members of the family, together with that of his son Tejashwi in Delhi.

    The Central Bureau of Investigation had not too long ago questioned Prasad and his spouse Rabri Devi — former chief ministers of Bihar — within the case.

    ALSO READ: Lalu livid over pregnant daughter-in-law’s harassment throughout ED raids

  • Land for jobs rip-off: ED ‘detects’ Rs 600 crore in property after raids on Lalu Prasad’s household

    Express News Service

    NEW DELHI: The Directorate of Enforcement on Saturday mentioned it had recovered property value over Rs 600 crore following a sequence of raids on RJD supremo and former UPA Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav’s kin and associates in reference to a cash laundering case linked to the railways land for jobs rip-off.

    According to sources raids performed on 24 areas together with Delhi NCR, Patna, Mumbai and Ranchi within the rip-off led to the restoration of  Rs 1 crore in money, international forex together with USD 1900, 540 grams of gold bullion and greater than 1.5 kg of gold jewelry valued at Rs 1.25 crores roughly.

    Several different paperwork together with varied property paperwork, sale deeds and associated papers held within the names of members of the family and benamidaars indicating unlawful accretion of giant land financial institution and digital units had been additionally seized through the pan-India operation.

    The searches on his members of the family included the premises of Lalu Yadav’s son and Bihar deputy CM Tejaswi Yadav and his daughters — Ragini Yadav, Hema Yadav, and Chanda Yadav. The premises of former RJD MLA Saye Abu Dojana — a detailed affiliate of Lalu Yadav — was raided by the ED who searched his workplace and residence within the Phulwarisharif space adjoining the Patna Airport.

    According to sources, a four-storeyed bungalow, in South Delhi’s New Friends Colony space, had been registered within the identify of AB Exports Private Limited. The firm is “owned and controlled” by Tejashwi Yadav and his household and this home was proven to have been acquired at a price of a mere Rs 4 lakh whereas the current market worth of which is roughly Rs 150 crore.

    During the searches, Tejaswi Prasad Yadav was discovered to be staying at this home and was discovered to be utilizing this home as his residential property, the ED mentioned.

    The ED’s motion come shut on the heels of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) questioning Lalu, his spouse Rabri Devi and his daughter and Rajya Sabha MP Misa Bharti in reference to the corruption prices associated to the alleged rip-off.

    The central company has already filed a chargesheet within the matter in 2022 October and additional investigations are on. In the CBI chargesheet, Lalu’s daughter Misa and a former normal supervisor of the Railways had been additionally named as accused within the cost sheet filed earlier than a particular CBI courtroom not too long ago.

    The preliminary enquiry into the matter was registered and initiated by the CBI on September 23, 2021, in connection to the alleged land-for-jobs rip-off within the Railways which was transformed into an FIR on May 18, 2022. It is alleged that folks got employment within the railways in return for land parcels gifted or bought at low cost charges to the Yadav household and its associates throughout Prasad’s tenure because the railway minister within the UPA authorities from 2004 to 2009.

    ALSO READ: Lalu livid over pregnant daughter-in-law’s harassment throughout ED raids

    Meanwhile, the PMLA investigation performed by ED to this point has revealed that a number of items of land at distinguished areas in Patna and different areas had been illegally acquired by the household of the then Rail Mantri, Lalu Prasad Yadav in lieu of jobs offered in Railways.

    The company claims, Individuals had been allegedly appointed as substitutes in group D positions inside three days of making use of in “undue haste” by Railway officers and had been later regularised when the “individuals themselves or their family members transferred their land.”

    The present market worth of those land parcels is greater than Rs 200 Crore. In this regard, a number of benamidars, shell entities and useful homeowners for these lands have been recognized.

    The ED investigation has discovered that 4 parcels of land had been acquired by the RJD chief’s household for simply Rs 7.5 Lakhs from poor Group-D candidates. These lands had been bought to Dojana by Rabri Devi with large good points at Rs 3.5 Crore in a collusive take care of a significant portion of the quantity acquired transferred to the account of Tejashwi.

    Furthermore, the investigation revealed that over 50 per cent of recruited candidates throughout a number of Zonal Railways had been from the constituencies of Lalu Prasad’s households. 

    More raids are anticipated as a part of the central companies’ investigation into the alleged rip-off.

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    NEW DELHI: The Directorate of Enforcement on Saturday mentioned it had recovered property value over Rs 600 crore following a sequence of raids on RJD supremo and former UPA Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav’s kin and associates in reference to a cash laundering case linked to the railways land for jobs rip-off.

    According to sources raids performed on 24 areas together with Delhi NCR, Patna, Mumbai and Ranchi within the rip-off led to the restoration of  Rs 1 crore in money, international forex together with USD 1900, 540 grams of gold bullion and greater than 1.5 kg of gold jewelry valued at Rs 1.25 crores roughly.

    Several different paperwork together with varied property paperwork, sale deeds and associated papers held within the names of members of the family and benamidaars indicating unlawful accretion of giant land financial institution and digital units had been additionally seized through the pan-India operation.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2′); );

    The searches on his members of the family included the premises of Lalu Yadav’s son and Bihar deputy CM Tejaswi Yadav and his daughters — Ragini Yadav, Hema Yadav, and Chanda Yadav. The premises of former RJD MLA Saye Abu Dojana — a detailed affiliate of Lalu Yadav — was raided by the ED who searched his workplace and residence within the Phulwarisharif space adjoining the Patna Airport.

    According to sources, a four-storeyed bungalow, in South Delhi’s New Friends Colony space, had been registered within the identify of AB Exports Private Limited. The firm is “owned and controlled” by Tejashwi Yadav and his household and this home was proven to have been acquired at a price of a mere Rs 4 lakh whereas the current market worth of which is roughly Rs 150 crore.

    During the searches, Tejaswi Prasad Yadav was discovered to be staying at this home and was discovered to be utilizing this home as his residential property, the ED mentioned.

    The ED’s motion come shut on the heels of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) questioning Lalu, his spouse Rabri Devi and his daughter and Rajya Sabha MP Misa Bharti in reference to the corruption prices associated to the alleged rip-off.

    The central company has already filed a chargesheet within the matter in 2022 October and additional investigations are on. In the CBI chargesheet, Lalu’s daughter Misa and a former normal supervisor of the Railways had been additionally named as accused within the cost sheet filed earlier than a particular CBI courtroom not too long ago.

    The preliminary enquiry into the matter was registered and initiated by the CBI on September 23, 2021, in connection to the alleged land-for-jobs rip-off within the Railways which was transformed into an FIR on May 18, 2022. It is alleged that folks got employment within the railways in return for land parcels gifted or bought at low cost charges to the Yadav household and its associates throughout Prasad’s tenure because the railway minister within the UPA authorities from 2004 to 2009.

    ALSO READ: Lalu livid over pregnant daughter-in-law’s harassment throughout ED raids

    Meanwhile, the PMLA investigation performed by ED to this point has revealed that a number of items of land at distinguished areas in Patna and different areas had been illegally acquired by the household of the then Rail Mantri, Lalu Prasad Yadav in lieu of jobs offered in Railways.

    The company claims, Individuals had been allegedly appointed as substitutes in group D positions inside three days of making use of in “undue haste” by Railway officers and had been later regularised when the “individuals themselves or their family members transferred their land.”

    The present market worth of those land parcels is greater than Rs 200 Crore. In this regard, a number of benamidars, shell entities and useful homeowners for these lands have been recognized.

    The ED investigation has discovered that 4 parcels of land had been acquired by the RJD chief’s household for simply Rs 7.5 Lakhs from poor Group-D candidates. These lands had been bought to Dojana by Rabri Devi with large good points at Rs 3.5 Crore in a collusive take care of a significant portion of the quantity acquired transferred to the account of Tejashwi.

    Furthermore, the investigation revealed that over 50 per cent of recruited candidates throughout a number of Zonal Railways had been from the constituencies of Lalu Prasad’s households. 

    More raids are anticipated as a part of the central companies’ investigation into the alleged rip-off.

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  • Delhi excise coverage case: BRS chief Kavitha questioned by ED for 9 hrs, summoned once more

    Express News Service

    NEW DELHI: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) chief Ok Kavitha deposed earlier than the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for 9 hours on Saturday in reference to a cash laundering case linked to alleged irregularities within the Delhi excise coverage, officers mentioned.

    The 44-year-old daughter of Telangana Chief Minister Ok Chandrashekar Rao left the federal company’s headquarters round 8 pm after 9 hours of questioning and recording of her assertion beneath the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), they mentioned.

    The officers mentioned the BRS chief has been summoned once more on March 16 in reference to the case.

    Kavitha had the headquarters of the Directorate on Saturday round 11.15 am to reply questions concerning her alleged position within the manipulation of  Liquor coverage to learn liquor merchants, together with her and the laundering of kickbacks generated following the tweaks within the coverage.

    There was a heavy presence of Delhi Police and central paramilitary forces personnel for barricading the ED workplace even because the supporters of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) chief staged a protest.

    #WATCH | Delhi: BRS MLC and Telangana CM’s daughter Ok Kavitha arrives at her residence after she was questioned by the ED officers associated to Delhi liquor coverage case. pic.twitter.com/8KQJ2l4ZOY

    — ANI (@ANI) March 11, 2023

    The BRS chief had skipped the March 9 summon, when the ED had known as her for questioning, citing her commitments to a political rally at Jantar Mantar looking for the introduction and passage of the Women’s Reservation Bill, by the ruling BJP-led authorities on the centre.

    The questioning of Kavitha coincides with the arrest of Delhi ex-Deputy CM Manish Sisodia and Hyderabad-based businessman Arun R Pillar – at present in ED custody, who in accordance with the company are deeply concerned in tweaking the Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22 via a deliberate conspiracy to learn liquor merchants of the South Group of which Kavitha was half and siphoning the kickbacks out of the system.

    BRS MLC and Telangana CM Ok Chandrashekar Rao’s daughter, Ok Kavitha leaves for the ED workplace. (Photo | Shekar Yadav, EPS)

    The coverage which was allegedly tweaked and carried out by Sisodia because the Delhi excise minister led to large earnings for a liquor group known as South Group and resulted in income losses to the tune of round 2973 crores to the Delhi Government. The Excise coverage allegedly violated all provisions which have been supplied to safeguard the curiosity of the Delhi authorities and supply a good alternative to licensees and stakeholders the ED alleged.

    ALSO READ | Kavitha has no ethical proper to demand Women’s Bill: BJP

    Seeking the ex-Deputy CM’s remand, the ED on Friday mentioned Sisodia conspired with others to border a defective excise coverage with a purpose to generate kickbacks and proceeds of crime to the tune of greater than Rs 290 crore. The ED claimed that to tweak the coverage to permit windfall positive aspects to liquor merchants – violating a number of provisions of the Excise Policy to safeguard the Delhi exchequer’s curiosity – the AAM celebration via its media supervisor Vijay Nair had acquired Rs 100 crore “kickbacks” as advance from the ‘South Group’. A particular courtroom remanded Sisodia to ED custody until March 17.

    About Pillai, the ED alleged that the Hyderabad-based businessman who was the consultant of the South Group was allegedly concerned within the tweaking of the Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22 on the formulation stage – by collaborating with Vijay Nair – and was one of many beneficiaries of kickback cash which he laundered subsequently.  He is at present being interrogated in ED custody because the company secured his remand until March 13.

    According to the ED, Pillai was the 32.5 per cent proprietor of a entrance by which Kavitha had a considerable stake. He was the consultant of the ‘South Group’ of liquor merchants and was a direct beneficiary of the kickback cash and was additionally concerned in laundering it.

    ALSO READ | Kavitha’s present of energy forward of ED questioning

    The liquor merchants of the South Group embrace outstanding individuals and politicians together with Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy, his son Raghav Magunta, Sharath Reddy of Aurobindo Pharma and Kavitha herself.

    Pillai, ED alleged, acquired the kickback cash amounting to a number of crores as a consequence of which the company has already hooked up a number of movable and immovable properties of Pillai and his spouse in Hyderabad and different locations price Rs. 5.72 crore as a part of its motion to recuperate the federal government cash which was allegedly generated as kickback and laundered within the Delhi Excise rip-off.

    (with inputs from PTI)

    NEW DELHI: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) chief Ok Kavitha deposed earlier than the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for 9 hours on Saturday in reference to a cash laundering case linked to alleged irregularities within the Delhi excise coverage, officers mentioned.

    The 44-year-old daughter of Telangana Chief Minister Ok Chandrashekar Rao left the federal company’s headquarters round 8 pm after 9 hours of questioning and recording of her assertion beneath the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), they mentioned.

    The officers mentioned the BRS chief has been summoned once more on March 16 in reference to the case.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Kavitha had the headquarters of the Directorate on Saturday round 11.15 am to reply questions concerning her alleged position within the manipulation of  Liquor coverage to learn liquor merchants, together with her and the laundering of kickbacks generated following the tweaks within the coverage.

    There was a heavy presence of Delhi Police and central paramilitary forces personnel for barricading the ED workplace even because the supporters of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) chief staged a protest.

    #WATCH | Delhi: BRS MLC and Telangana CM’s daughter Ok Kavitha arrives at her residence after she was questioned by the ED officers associated to Delhi liquor coverage case. pic.twitter.com/8KQJ2l4ZOY
    — ANI (@ANI) March 11, 2023
    The BRS chief had skipped the March 9 summon, when the ED had known as her for questioning, citing her commitments to a political rally at Jantar Mantar looking for the introduction and passage of the Women’s Reservation Bill, by the ruling BJP-led authorities on the centre.

    The questioning of Kavitha coincides with the arrest of Delhi ex-Deputy CM Manish Sisodia and Hyderabad-based businessman Arun R Pillar – at present in ED custody, who in accordance with the company are deeply concerned in tweaking the Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22 via a deliberate conspiracy to learn liquor merchants of the South Group of which Kavitha was half and siphoning the kickbacks out of the system.

    BRS MLC and Telangana CM Ok Chandrashekar Rao’s daughter, Ok Kavitha leaves for the ED workplace. (Photo | Shekar Yadav, EPS)

    The coverage which was allegedly tweaked and carried out by Sisodia because the Delhi excise minister led to large earnings for a liquor group known as South Group and resulted in income losses to the tune of round 2973 crores to the Delhi Government. The Excise coverage allegedly violated all provisions which have been supplied to safeguard the curiosity of the Delhi authorities and supply a good alternative to licensees and stakeholders the ED alleged.

    ALSO READ | Kavitha has no ethical proper to demand Women’s Bill: BJP

    Seeking the ex-Deputy CM’s remand, the ED on Friday mentioned Sisodia conspired with others to border a defective excise coverage with a purpose to generate kickbacks and proceeds of crime to the tune of greater than Rs 290 crore. The ED claimed that to tweak the coverage to permit windfall positive aspects to liquor merchants – violating a number of provisions of the Excise Policy to safeguard the Delhi exchequer’s curiosity – the AAM celebration via its media supervisor Vijay Nair had acquired Rs 100 crore “kickbacks” as advance from the ‘South Group’. A particular courtroom remanded Sisodia to ED custody until March 17.

    About Pillai, the ED alleged that the Hyderabad-based businessman who was the consultant of the South Group was allegedly concerned within the tweaking of the Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22 on the formulation stage – by collaborating with Vijay Nair – and was one of many beneficiaries of kickback cash which he laundered subsequently.  He is at present being interrogated in ED custody because the company secured his remand until March 13.

    According to the ED, Pillai was the 32.5 per cent proprietor of a entrance by which Kavitha had a considerable stake. He was the consultant of the ‘South Group’ of liquor merchants and was a direct beneficiary of the kickback cash and was additionally concerned in laundering it.

    ALSO READ | Kavitha’s present of energy forward of ED questioning

    The liquor merchants of the South Group embrace outstanding individuals and politicians together with Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy, his son Raghav Magunta, Sharath Reddy of Aurobindo Pharma and Kavitha herself.

    Pillai, ED alleged, acquired the kickback cash amounting to a number of crores as a consequence of which the company has already hooked up a number of movable and immovable properties of Pillai and his spouse in Hyderabad and different locations price Rs. 5.72 crore as a part of its motion to recuperate the federal government cash which was allegedly generated as kickback and laundered within the Delhi Excise rip-off.

    (with inputs from PTI)

  • ED to query Sisodia in Tihar Jail; another businessman arrested in Delhi excise case

    Express News Service

    NEW DELHI: The sleuths of the Enforcement Directorate will probably be reaching Tihar Jail Tuesday afternoon to query Manish Sisodia for the primary time in reference to the laundering of the kickback cash which was allegedly generated by deliberate tweaking of the Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22 which resulted in windfall positive aspects to liquor merchants who routed again the cash to politicians, authorities servant and intermediary as a bribe.

    Also, on Tuesday morning the ED arrested one other key accused allegedly concerned within the laundering of kickback Arun Pillai – a Hyderabad-based businessman.  

    The ED secured permission from a particular PMLA Judge MK Nagpal on Monday night to query Sisodia on the Tihar Jail premised in wake of investigations reaching a stage the place the ex-chief minister of Delhi will probably be quizzed in reference to the laundering of the kickback cash which was generated at the price of enormous losses to the Delhi Exchequer. Part of the cash was additionally used to fund elections campaigns of AAP, the ED alleged.

    Sisodia was despatched to Tihar Jail in judicial custody after CBI arrested and questioned him in remand for six days in reference to the corruptions fees by which it has been alleged that Sisodia, who has been named as accused No.1 within the CBI FIR, was chargeable for permitting ‘tweaks’ within the Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22 which resulted in losses to the tune of Rs 2,873 crores to the Deilhi authorities whereas producing enormous income for the liquor merchants being addressed because the South Group by the investigating businesses – the CBI and the ED.

    Meanwhile, one other accused Arun Pillai, who has been named within the CBI chargesheet already, was arrested by the ED Tuesday morning. Pillai, a Hyderabad-based businessman, based on ED was the one that represented the ‘South Group’ of liquor merchants and was concerned within the laundering of the kickbacks generated as bribes for favours prolonged to the liquor merchants.  

    According to ED the liquor merchants of the South Group contains outstanding individuals and politicians together with Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy, Raghav Magunta, Sharath Reddy and Okay Kavitha, the daughter of Telangana CM .

    Pillai will probably be produced earlier than the particular courtroom of Nagpal by ED Tuesday afternoon and will probably be searching for his custody to quiz him in custodial remand. The ED in January has already hooked up a number of properties of Pillai in Hyderabad that are estimated to be round Rs. 2.25 cr as a part of its motion to get better the federal government cash which was allegedly generated as kickback laundered within the Delhi Excise rip-off.

    The ED In January moved to freeze properties estimated to be round  Rs 76. 54 cores, belonging to Sameer Mahendru, Vijay Nair, Amit Arora and Pillai are concerned within the Delhi Liquor Excise rip-off which has prompted losses to the tune of Rs 2873 crores to the Delhi Government. The rip-off which allegedly took form because of deliberate tweaks within the Excise coverage to learn liquor cartels, politicians and authorities officers is being probed by each ED and CBI for cash laundering and corruption respectively.

    NEW DELHI: The sleuths of the Enforcement Directorate will probably be reaching Tihar Jail Tuesday afternoon to query Manish Sisodia for the primary time in reference to the laundering of the kickback cash which was allegedly generated by deliberate tweaking of the Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22 which resulted in windfall positive aspects to liquor merchants who routed again the cash to politicians, authorities servant and intermediary as a bribe.

    Also, on Tuesday morning the ED arrested one other key accused allegedly concerned within the laundering of kickback Arun Pillai – a Hyderabad-based businessman.  

    The ED secured permission from a particular PMLA Judge MK Nagpal on Monday night to query Sisodia on the Tihar Jail premised in wake of investigations reaching a stage the place the ex-chief minister of Delhi will probably be quizzed in reference to the laundering of the kickback cash which was generated at the price of enormous losses to the Delhi Exchequer. Part of the cash was additionally used to fund elections campaigns of AAP, the ED alleged.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Sisodia was despatched to Tihar Jail in judicial custody after CBI arrested and questioned him in remand for six days in reference to the corruptions fees by which it has been alleged that Sisodia, who has been named as accused No.1 within the CBI FIR, was chargeable for permitting ‘tweaks’ within the Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22 which resulted in losses to the tune of Rs 2,873 crores to the Deilhi authorities whereas producing enormous income for the liquor merchants being addressed because the South Group by the investigating businesses – the CBI and the ED.

    Meanwhile, one other accused Arun Pillai, who has been named within the CBI chargesheet already, was arrested by the ED Tuesday morning. Pillai, a Hyderabad-based businessman, based on ED was the one that represented the ‘South Group’ of liquor merchants and was concerned within the laundering of the kickbacks generated as bribes for favours prolonged to the liquor merchants.  

    According to ED the liquor merchants of the South Group contains outstanding individuals and politicians together with Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy, Raghav Magunta, Sharath Reddy and Okay Kavitha, the daughter of Telangana CM .

    Pillai will probably be produced earlier than the particular courtroom of Nagpal by ED Tuesday afternoon and will probably be searching for his custody to quiz him in custodial remand. The ED in January has already hooked up a number of properties of Pillai in Hyderabad that are estimated to be round Rs. 2.25 cr as a part of its motion to get better the federal government cash which was allegedly generated as kickback laundered within the Delhi Excise rip-off.

    The ED In January moved to freeze properties estimated to be round  Rs 76. 54 cores, belonging to Sameer Mahendru, Vijay Nair, Amit Arora and Pillai are concerned within the Delhi Liquor Excise rip-off which has prompted losses to the tune of Rs 2873 crores to the Delhi Government. The rip-off which allegedly took form because of deliberate tweaks within the Excise coverage to learn liquor cartels, politicians and authorities officers is being probed by each ED and CBI for cash laundering and corruption respectively.