Bihar: ED attaches assets worth Rs 4.1 crore in Srijan scam. Patna News – Times of India

PATNA: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday provisionally attached movable and immovable properties worth over Rs 4.1 crore deposited by the accused persons in the notorious. Srijan a scam. properties. are situated Biharhandjob Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand.
A scam of over Rs 1,000 crore came to light in August 2017. Money from government bank accounts was fraudulently transferred to the accounts of an NGO, Srijan Mahila Vikas Sahyog Samiti (SMVSS), in connivance of government and bank officials in Bhagalpur and many other districts of Bihar. These funds were further laundered in the bank accounts of various firms and private individuals.
The Economic Offenses Unit (EOU) of the state police had initially initiated the investigation but the matter was later handed over to the police. CBI .
Sources said the ED attached 12 flats worth Rs 3.09 crore in Patna, Bhagalpur and Ghaziabad. “A flat in Patna is in the name of late Manorama Devi, who was the secretary of the NGO. The second flat is in the name of his daughter and son-in-law in Ghaziabad. One flat each in Bhagalpur is in the name of bank employee Sant Kumar Sinha and his wife. Ghaziabad respectively,” the sources said.
He said that another flat in Ghaziabad is also in the name of accused Devankar Mishra and his wife Shashilata Mishra.
Sources said that the accused government audit officer Satish Kumar Mishra had also bought two flats in Ghaziabad in the name of his son and daughter.
“Government employee Babita Jha also had a flat in Ghaziabad. Businessman Vipin Kumar had one flat in Patna and two in Bhagalpur. Another businessman Abhishek Kumar had also bought a flat in Ghaziabad in the name of his wife Aparna Verma with scam money,” said a source giving details of the attached properties.
Sources said the ED has also attached five plots and houses worth about Rs 87.77 lakh in Bhagalpur. Sitamarhi Bought with wrongly earned money. “This includes benami properties in Sitamarhi in the name of Manorama’s relative and a plot and house bought for her daughter-in-law Rajni Priya,” a source said.
The attached properties include bank deposits worth Rs 1.2 lakh and an SUV worth around Rs 11.89 lakh, he said.
Earlier, on May 29 last year, movable and immovable properties worth Rs 14.32 crore were temporarily attached, including flats and plots of government officials, businessmen and private persons, which were laundered and deposited scam money. .

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