Money Laundering Case Filed Against Businessman Navneet Kalra, Others In Oxygen Scam

It is linked to a case filed by the Delhi Police after they raided some restaurants and premises owned by Navneet Kalra and recovered more than 500 oxygen machines from there.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a money laundering case against businessman Navneet Kalra and his associates in a recent case of alleged hoarding and black marketing of oxygen concentrators which were being anxiously scoured by those gasping for air due to COVID-19 infection, officials said today. The central probe agency took cognisance of a Delhi Police case that was filed on May 5 after policemen raided some restaurants and premises owned and linked to Navneet Kalra and recovered more than 500 of these life-saving machines from there. Official sources said a criminal case under various sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) has been filed against Navneet Kalra and his associates and the ED will probe the money trail in the matter. The agency, they said, will probe if the oxygen concentrators were illegally hoarded and offered to the family members or caregivers of coronavirus-infected patients at exorbitant prices, thereby leading to generation of "proceeds of crime" as defined under the PMLA.