ED books Siddaramaiah in MUDA linked money-laundering case
The Hindu
Enforcement Directorate files money-laundering case against Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah based on Lokayukta FIR.
The Enforcement Directorate on Monday (September 30, 2024) booked Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and some others in a money-laundering case linked to the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA), taking cognisance of a recent state Lokayukta FIR, official sources said.
The federal agency has filed an enforcement case information report (ECIR) to book the chief minister and others, they said.
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Mr. Siddaramaiah, his wife B.M. Parvathi, brother-in-law Mallikarjuna Swamy and Devaraju - from whom Mr. Swamy had purchased land and gifted it to Ms. Parvathi - and others have been named in the FIR registered by the Mysuru-located Lokayukta police establishment on September 27.
The FIR was lodged after a special court in Bengaluru last week ordered a Lokayukta police probe against Mr. Siddaramaiah in the case.
The order of the special court judge came a day after the high court upheld the sanction granted by Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot to conduct an investigation against the senior Congress leader on allegations of illegalities in the allotment of 14 sites to his wife by MUDA.
The ED has pressed sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) to book Mr. Siddaramaiah in its ECIR, the equivalent of a police FIR.
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