Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], November 4 (ANI): The Enforcement Directorate (ED) stated on Saturday it took swift motion in opposition to corruption, conducting follow-up search operations at 26 areas, together with financial institution accounts, in Jaipur and Dausa districts of Rajasthan.
According to an official launch, these operations had been carried out beneath the provisions of the Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA) as a part of the continued investigation into the Jal Jeevan Mission Scam.
The focused searches prolonged to each official and residential premises, revealing the involvement of senior Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) officers, together with Subodh Agarwal, Additional Chief Secretary (PHED), in addition to personal people.
The ED’s investigation started in response to an FIR registered by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in Rajasthan in opposition to Padamchand Jain, the proprietor of M/s. Shree Shyam Tubewell Company, Mahesh Mittal, the proprietor of M/s. Shree Ganpati Tubewell Company, and others, together with PHED officers.
A separate FIR was filed by the Rajasthan Police on the Bajaj Nagar Police Station primarily based on complaints of faux and fabricated work expertise certificates submitted by a suspected agency.
The Enforcement Directorate claimed to have uncovered proof displaying that these contractors secured Jal Jeevan Mission tenders by presenting purportedly pretend work completion certificates issued by M/s.
Indian Railway Construction International Limited (IRCON) and by allegedly bribing senior PHED officers.
Numerous middlemen and property sellers performed a job in aiding these officers in syphoning off the illegally acquired funds from the Jal Jeevan Mission rip-off.
During the search operations, the ED seized a complete of Rs 2.21 crore, which included unaccounted money amounting to Rs 48 lakh and a financial institution steadiness of Rs 1.73 crore.
Various incriminating paperwork, together with property data and digital proof, had been additionally frozen or seized in the course of the operation, the ED knowledgeable by means of the discharge, including that the information uncovered suspicious monetary transactions involving varied people.
The complete seizure on this case has now reached Rs 11.03 crore, which incorporates gold and silver price Rs 6.50 crore, the company knowledgeable. (ANI)