Chhattisgarh: ED seizes Rs 4-cr money, jewelry in cash laundering case raids
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RAIPUR: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has seized about Rs 4 crore price of money and jewelry throughout searches at a number of areas linked to authorities officers and businessmen in Chhattisgarh in reference to a cash laundering case.
The seizures have been produced from each the federal government officers and personal entities raided, company sources mentioned.
The ED motion pertains to a cash laundering investigation into alleged unlawful levy commissions sourced by sure entities from transporters in Chhattisgarh, the sources mentioned.
The federal company has taken cognisance of an Income Tax Department grievance and cost sheet to file a case beneath the felony sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), they mentioned.
According to sources, separate groups of the ED have been conducting raids in state capital Raipur, Raigarh, Mahasamund, Korba and different districts since Tuesday.
Multiple groups of the company escorted by central paramilitary forces personnel had been a part of the raids.
The searches lined premises of three Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers, together with a district collector, businessman, together with Suryakant Tiwari, and politicians of the ruling get together, together with former MLA and chairman of state’s seeds growth company Agni Chandrakar, the sources mentioned.
Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel had termed the raids as an “act of intimidation”.
The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will not be in a position to battle immediately, therefore it’s attempting to battle by means of the ED, Income Tax (I-T) division and the Department of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Baghel informed reporters right here.
“I have already said that they will come again and it’s not the last time. Their visits will increase as the election approaches. This is just an act of intimidation and nothing else,” he mentioned.
RAIPUR: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has seized about Rs 4 crore price of money and jewelry throughout searches at a number of areas linked to authorities officers and businessmen in Chhattisgarh in reference to a cash laundering case.
The seizures have been produced from each the federal government officers and personal entities raided, company sources mentioned.
The ED motion pertains to a cash laundering investigation into alleged unlawful levy commissions sourced by sure entities from transporters in Chhattisgarh, the sources mentioned.
The federal company has taken cognisance of an Income Tax Department grievance and cost sheet to file a case beneath the felony sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), they mentioned.
According to sources, separate groups of the ED have been conducting raids in state capital Raipur, Raigarh, Mahasamund, Korba and different districts since Tuesday.
Multiple groups of the company escorted by central paramilitary forces personnel had been a part of the raids.
The searches lined premises of three Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers, together with a district collector, businessman, together with Suryakant Tiwari, and politicians of the ruling get together, together with former MLA and chairman of state’s seeds growth company Agni Chandrakar, the sources mentioned.
Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel had termed the raids as an “act of intimidation”.
The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will not be in a position to battle immediately, therefore it’s attempting to battle by means of the ED, Income Tax (I-T) division and the Department of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Baghel informed reporters right here.
“I have already said that they will come again and it’s not the last time. Their visits will increase as the election approaches. This is just an act of intimidation and nothing else,” he mentioned.
