The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday conducted nation-wide searches against several bureaucrats, including Godala Kiran Kumar (IAS:2005:WB), CEO of Siliguri-Jalpaiguri Development Authority, in connection with its separate money laundering cases against them on corruption charges.
Reportedly a total of 20 officers and their 18 premises in ten states, including West Bengal, Delhi, AP, Rajasthan, Karnataka and Chennai, were covered by the agency in its search operations that began in the early morning. If some well placed sources are to be believed the list of officials included; A Kishan (IFS), Anand Wachasundar (former Prl Chief Engineer, Goa), Dinesh Kumar Verma, Ms Maya Dalvi(Spl Assistant, Bank of India), Bhupesh Chandravanshi (Branch Manager, State Co Op Bank Ltd, Bilaspur), K Satyanarayana (Retd Section Supervisor, EPFO), Durga Prasad (former Regional Provident Fund Commissioner, Chennai), K Pandiyarajan (Chief Manager, Indian Bank, Paramkudi & Kodaikanal Branches) etc.
It is learnt that the searches were carried out under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and the action was part of gathering additional data, documents and information against the accused in these cases to take forward the investigation.
In West Bengal's Kolkata, the agency searched the premises of an IAS officer, whom it had booked under PMLA on the basis of a case registered against him under anti-corruption laws by the state government.
"It is alleged that the said officer, in connivance with some engineers, had released Rs 60 crore by falsification and manipulation of tender documents," the agency said in a statement.
Similarly, it searched the premises of a Project Engineer in Noida in connection with the money laundering case it is probing against former Noida Chief Engineer Yadav Singh.
In Delhi, three retired officers of the State Trading Corporation (STC), including an ex-CMD were raided.
In Uttar Pradesh, the ED searched the premises of government servants involved in the 'Smarak' case, pertaining to stones procured for building large structures, where it is suspected that government servants caused loss of over Rs 1,400 crore to the state government.
Action, it said, has also been taken in the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam in which "government servants and ministers had allegedly misappropriated government funds and till now ED has attached proceeds of crime of over Rs 250 crore.
"The searches have been carried out against officers of the rank of DG (Health), Project Engineers and Director of UP Jal Nigam," it said.
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By IndianMandarins - 2017-04-07 09:42:17
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday conducted nation-wide searches against several bureaucrats, including Godala Kiran Kumar (IAS:2005:WB), CEO of Siliguri-Jalpaiguri Development Authority, in connection with its separate money laundering cases against them on corruption charges.
Reportedly a total of 20 officers and their 18 premises in ten states, including West Bengal, Delhi, AP, Rajasthan, Karnataka and Chennai, were covered by the agency in its search operations that began in the early morning. If some well placed sources are to be believed the list of officials included; A Kishan (IFS), Anand Wachasundar (former Prl Chief Engineer, Goa), Dinesh Kumar Verma, Ms Maya Dalvi(Spl Assistant, Bank of India), Bhupesh Chandravanshi (Branch Manager, State Co Op Bank Ltd, Bilaspur), K Satyanarayana (Retd Section Supervisor, EPFO), Durga Prasad (former Regional Provident Fund Commissioner, Chennai), K Pandiyarajan (Chief Manager, Indian Bank, Paramkudi & Kodaikanal Branches) etc.
It is learnt that the searches were carried out under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and the action was part of gathering additional data, documents and information against the accused in these cases to take forward the investigation.
In West Bengal's Kolkata, the agency searched the premises of an IAS officer, whom it had booked under PMLA on the basis of a case registered against him under anti-corruption laws by the state government.
"It is alleged that the said officer, in connivance with some engineers, had released Rs 60 crore by falsification and manipulation of tender documents," the agency said in a statement.
Similarly, it searched the premises of a Project Engineer in Noida in connection with the money laundering case it is probing against former Noida Chief Engineer Yadav Singh.
In Delhi, three retired officers of the State Trading Corporation (STC), including an ex-CMD were raided.
In Uttar Pradesh, the ED searched the premises of government servants involved in the 'Smarak' case, pertaining to stones procured for building large structures, where it is suspected that government servants caused loss of over Rs 1,400 crore to the state government.
Action, it said, has also been taken in the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam in which "government servants and ministers had allegedly misappropriated government funds and till now ED has attached proceeds of crime of over Rs 250 crore.
"The searches have been carried out against officers of the rank of DG (Health), Project Engineers and Director of UP Jal Nigam," it said.
