Jharkhand: ED arrests chief engineer who amassed properties price greater than 100 crore

Express News Service

RANCHI: After conducting searches for greater than 35 hours at over 2 dozen places of Chief Engineer Virendra Kumar Ram everywhere in the Country, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) sleuths lastly arrested him late within the night time on Wednesday in a cash laundering case linked to alleged irregularities in implementation of some schemes.

According to ED sources, the Chief Engineer has amassed properties, each movable and immovable, to over 100 crore.

ED sources claimed that whereas conducting searches at his places since 5 am on Tuesday, they’ve recovered evidences of amassing properties price a number of hundred crore by the Chief Engineer. Earlier on Tuesday, ED had additionally recovered jewellery price Rs 1.5 crore from his residence in Ranchi.

Earlier, the ED officers took Ram alongside together with his aide Alok Ranjan at their zonal workplace in Ranchi for interrogation. According to officers, Ram was “evasive” in his replies and the ED will look for his custodial interrogation after they produce him earlier than an area court docket on Thursday.

Interestingly, a pen drive has been recovered from Ram having all particulars of transactions made by him with politicians and bureaucrats as nicely. Now, all these politicians, who had been nearer to Ram, are beneath ED scanner, they stated. 

According to officers in Rural growth Department, even if he did not any such prior expertise, Ram was made Chief Engineer of Rural Development Department, beneath which tender is granted for development of roads in rural areas price a number of hundred crore.

ED sources stated that the company is preserving all points into consideration whereas investigating the case. They are looking for out the supply of the large properties amassed by Ram.

As of now, the ED has recovered Rs 30 lakh money, jewellery price Rs 1.5 crore, a fleet of 8 luxurious automobiles price a number of crore and over a dozen bungalows and flats positioned at posh places in metro and different cities.

Notably, Virendra Kumar Ram had come into the limelight in 2019 when a crew of the Anti-corruption Bureau (ACB) seized over Rs 2.50 crore from certainly one of his subordinates. Later, the ED took over the case beneath the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.

Ram reportedly had sturdy hyperlinks proper from politicians to the paperwork as a result of which he had been managing the tenders of rural growth division.

According to the folks shut him, Ram’s spouse Rajkumari had additionally been making efforts to contest elections from Jugasalai Assembly seat in Jamshedpur however was not given ticket for it.

According to the federal government sources, as a result of closeness with the political events throughout the occasion line, Virendra Ram all the time loved plum posts regardless of whose authorities it was.

RANCHI: After conducting searches for greater than 35 hours at over 2 dozen places of Chief Engineer Virendra Kumar Ram everywhere in the Country, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) sleuths lastly arrested him late within the night time on Wednesday in a cash laundering case linked to alleged irregularities in implementation of some schemes.

According to ED sources, the Chief Engineer has amassed properties, each movable and immovable, to over 100 crore.

ED sources claimed that whereas conducting searches at his places since 5 am on Tuesday, they’ve recovered evidences of amassing properties price a number of hundred crore by the Chief Engineer. Earlier on Tuesday, ED had additionally recovered jewellery price Rs 1.5 crore from his residence in Ranchi.

Earlier, the ED officers took Ram alongside together with his aide Alok Ranjan at their zonal workplace in Ranchi for interrogation. According to officers, Ram was “evasive” in his replies and the ED will look for his custodial interrogation after they produce him earlier than an area court docket on Thursday.

Interestingly, a pen drive has been recovered from Ram having all particulars of transactions made by him with politicians and bureaucrats as nicely. Now, all these politicians, who had been nearer to Ram, are beneath ED scanner, they stated. 

According to officers in Rural growth Department, even if he did not any such prior expertise, Ram was made Chief Engineer of Rural Development Department, beneath which tender is granted for development of roads in rural areas price a number of hundred crore.
ED sources stated that the company is preserving all points into consideration whereas investigating the case. They are looking for out the supply of the large properties amassed by Ram.

As of now, the ED has recovered Rs 30 lakh money, jewellery price Rs 1.5 crore, a fleet of 8 luxurious automobiles price a number of crore and over a dozen bungalows and flats positioned at posh places in metro and different cities.

Notably, Virendra Kumar Ram had come into the limelight in 2019 when a crew of the Anti-corruption Bureau (ACB) seized over Rs 2.50 crore from certainly one of his subordinates. Later, the ED took over the case beneath the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.

Ram reportedly had sturdy hyperlinks proper from politicians to the paperwork as a result of which he had been managing the tenders of rural growth division.

According to the folks shut him, Ram’s spouse Rajkumari had additionally been making efforts to contest elections from Jugasalai Assembly seat in Jamshedpur however was not given ticket for it.

According to the federal government sources, as a result of closeness with the political events throughout the occasion line, Virendra Ram all the time loved plum posts regardless of whose authorities it was.