ED files first chargesheet in Delhi Jal Board money-laundering case
The Hindu
Enforcement Directorate files chargesheet in Delhi Jal Board money-laundering probe, implicating AAP in bribery scheme.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed its first chargesheet in connection with a money-laundering probe linked to alleged irregularities in the Delhi Jal Board (DJB), official sources said on March 30.
The about 8,000-page-long prosecution complaint, which includes 140 operational pages apart from annexures, was filed by the federal agency before a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in Delhi on March 28, sources told PTI. The court has listed the matter for April 1 for taking cognisance of the chargesheet, they said.
Former DJB chief engineer Jagdish Kumar Arora, contractor Anil Kumar Agarwal, former NBCC general manager D K Mittal, one Tejinder Singh and NKG Infrastructure Limited have been named as the accused in the charge sheet. The agency has sought prosecution of these accused under the PMLA and informed that it might file supplementary complaints in the future.
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The ED has alleged that bribe money generated from corruption in a contract issued by the DJB was "passed on" as election funds to the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Delhi. The agency had also summoned Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for questioning in the case, but he did not depose before it.
Mr. Kejriwal was arrested by the ED on March 21 in another money-laundering case linked to alleged irregularities in the Excise policy for the national capital.
The agency had raided the premises of Mr. Kejriwal's personal assistant Bibhav Kumar, AAP's Rajya Sabha MP and treasurer N.D. Gupta, former DJB member Shalabh Kumar, chartered accountant Pankaj Mangal and some others as part of the probe in February.
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