New Delhi [India], September 13 (ANI): The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has recovered gold value virtually Rs 6 crore from officers within the Rajasthan authorities within the Centre’s Jal Jeevan Mission rip-off, the company mentioned on Wednesday.
The central probe company has recovered gold from Rajasthan Government official OP Vishwakarma and Rajasthan Administrative Services official Amitabh Kaushik within the rip-off.
“ED has recovered 8 kg of gold valued at Rs 4.84 crore from two lockers of a Rajasthan Government official OP Vishwakarma and 1.5 kg of gold valued at Rs 1.02 crore from the locker of Rajasthan Administrative Services official Amitabh Kaushik,” the company mentioned.
On September 1, the lockers have been seized from separate branches of Punjab National Bank in Jaipur by the ED.
The ED had carried out searches in Jaipur, Alwar, Neemrana, Behror, and Shahpura and seized unaccounted money amounting to Rs 2.32 Crore, a 1 Kg gold bar value Rs 64 lakh, and varied incriminating paperwork, together with digital proof, laborious disks, and cell units on September 1.
The ED’s investigation was initiated based mostly on an FIR registered by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in Rajasthan.
The case concerned people Padamchand Jain (Proprietor: Shree Shyam Tubewell Company), Mahesh Mittal (Proprietor Shree Ganpati Tubewell Company), and others.
They have been suspected of providing bribes to public servants to realize unlawful safety, safe tenders, receive invoice approvals, and canopy up irregularities associated to work executed in varied tenders issued by the Public Health and Engineering Department (PHED). (ANI)