Tag: Ed

An Enforcement Directorate team on Monday visited the residence of Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren in connection with a money laundering investigation, official sources said.

Adhya, also the former chairman of the Bongaon Municipality in the same district, has been brought to the ED’s office at Salt Lake on the northern outskirts of Kolkata.

On Friday, the ED sleuths and armed personnel of Central Armed Police Forces reached the residence of local Trinamool Congress leader Sheikh Sajahan, who is also a ration dealer by profession

The number of police personnel deployed at the CM's house has been doubled.

About a dozen locations in the state are being raided by the central agency under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), they said.

BJP MLA from Baripada, Prakash Soren alleged that the lion’s share of the seized cash from liquor manufacturers in Western Odisha belongs to the BJD.

This is the sixth notice issued to Soren, but he never deposed as he filed a petition before the Supreme Court seeking protection from the ED action.

The ED team came into action following the reports of fresh construction work in the premises of Rai, which were earlier attached by the agency in connection with its probe in the scam.

Lady blackmailer and sextortion case main accused Archana Nag may walk out of jail in the New Year as she has been granted bails in all three cases registered against her, the latest being the case pertaining to the Enforcement Directorate (ED). 

The investigation pertains to a case against Pranav Jewellers, a partnership firm based in Tiruchirapalli, whom the ED raided on November 20 and claimed to have seized "unexplained" cash of Rs 23.70 lakh and some gold jewellery.

Former Union minister and BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad accused the Gandhi family of capturing National Herald assets by converting the now-defunct newspaper's properties into its "personal properties".

The ED said that it received credible inputs and conducted a successful search operations on November 2 in Chhattisgarh in which Rs 5.39 crore cash has been intercepted in the poll-bound state.

Kejriwal, who was summoned by the ED to appear before it on November 2 for questioning, will be skipping the ED questioning and participate in a roadshow along with his Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann in Madhya Pradesh’s Singrauli.

The raids were carried out in connection with false declaration of imports for customs evasion of more than Rs 7 crore and international hawala transactions.

Both Amit Dey, the present PA and Avijit Das, the former PA of Mallick, appeared at ED's Salt Lake office in the northern outskirts of Kolkata on Saturday morning.