Sanjay Raut's ED custody extended till Monday in money laundering case
India | August 04, 2022 14:15 ISTThe ED had produced Raut before the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court on Thursday and sought an extension of his remand.
The ED had produced Raut before the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court on Thursday and sought an extension of his remand.
Bengal school jobs scam: The Trinamool Congress leadership is under immense pressure from within the party to relieve Partha Chatterjee of his ministerial and party posts with immediate effect.
Bengal school jobs scam: According to ED sources, Mukherjee also admitted that the cash recovered from her residences was parked there by Chatterjee with the help of one of his close associates unknown to her.
Bengal school jobs scam: The comment came amid the opposition BJP and CPI(M)'s attack on the TMC for not taking any action against Chatterjee even as huge amounts of cash were recovered from properties linked to him.
The ED, which is investigating the alleged money trail in the scam, had recovered more than Rs 20 crore in cash, besides jewellery and foreign exchange.
The Centre had earlier told the apex court that 4,850 cases have been taken up for investigation under the PMLA in the last 17 years and proceeds of crime of Rs 98,368 crore identified and attached under provisions of the law.
Sonia Gandhi's ED questioning: The ED probe relates to alleged financial irregularities in the Congress-promoted Young Indian Private Limited, which owns the National Herald newspaper.
Chatterjee, currently industries and commerce minister, held the education portfolio when the scam was allegedly pulled off. He was interrogated by the CBI twice, once on April 26 and then on May18.
The money laundering case stems from a CBI FIR against the Rashmi group of companies. These include Rashmi Cement Ltd and Rashmi Metalik Ltd.
ED and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) are conducting parallel probes in the coal smuggling scam, in which financial involvement as estimated by the central agencies is around Rs 1,300 crore.
The 2000-batch officer, who was holding the charge of Jharkhand mining secretary, was suspended by the state government following her arrest by the ED.
The ED had initiated investigation under FEMA on the basis of information that Amnesty International, UK, had been remitting huge amount of foreign contributions through its Indian entities.
Satyendar Jain was arrested by ED on May 30 under the criminal sections of the PMLA and is in judicial custody at present.
Jain, a minister without a portfolio in the Kejriwal government, is being probed by the agency under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) on charges of alleged hawala dealings.
The searches were carried out on June 3 against Gupta Builders and Promoters Pvt. Ltd., its directors Satish Gupta, Pardeep Gupta, their associates Bajwa Developers Ltd, Kumar Builders, Vinmehta Films Pvt. Ltd.
The case pertains to the arrest of Jharkhand junior engineer Ram Binod Prasad Sinha in 2020 by the Enforcement Directorate after it booked him under the PMLA.
The CBI had booked ABG Shipyard Ltd and its then chairman and managing director Rishi Kamlesh Agarwal along with others for allegedly cheating a consortium of banks of over Rs 22,842 crore.
Agency officials had on Thursday visited office premises of Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL) in Delhi and neighbouring Gurugram as part of the investigation being conducted under provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA).
Taking a swipe at Punjab Chief minister Charanjt Singh Channi, AAP national convenor said that he will not cry like him on ED raids.
ED raids at 10 places in Kolkata on fake corona vaccination. The main accused in the fake corona vaccination case is Debanjan Deb.
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