The AAP MP expressed confidence that Satyendar Jain would come out of the case.
New Delhi:
Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh on Wednesday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party for the arrest of Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain by the ED in a money laundering case and said it was a “false, baseless case”.
Singh alleged, “The party whose national president was caught on camera taking bribe, who did scam with martyrs’ coffins, scam in Rafale, they are preaching to us. It is like Gabbar Singh preaching peace. giving.” A press conference here.
The AAP MP expressed confidence that Satyendar Jain would come out of the case.
He claimed that the CBI probe against Mr. Jain “found nothing”, but the ED has made the arrests as elections in Himachal Pradesh will be held this year. Mr. Jain you are in-charge of Himachal Pradesh.
“Is the ED office running from the BJP office?” Mr Singh asked.
On May 30, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Delhi Health and Home Minister Satyendar Jain in connection with an alleged hawala transaction related to a Kolkata-based company. Mr Jain was arrested after a special team of ED raided his house in Delhi.
On August 25, 2017, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registered an FIR against Mr. Jain in a money laundering case.
The ED had registered a criminal case against the AAP leader on the basis of this FIR alleging that Mr Jain could not explain the source of funds received by four companies in which he was a shareholder.
Mr. Jain had reportedly created or bought several shell companies in Delhi. He also allegedly laundered Rs 16.39 crore of black money through 54 shell companies of three Kolkata-based hawala operators.
Mr. Jain reportedly held a large number of shares in companies named Prayas, Indo and Akinchan. However, according to reports, after becoming a minister in Kejriwal’s government, all his shares were transferred to his wife in 2015.
These companies used to transfer the cash payments to their Kolkata counterparts and these companies would later, on the pretext of buying shares, “send the money back” to Mr. Jain using legal means. The companies have allegedly laundered Rs 16.39 crore to Satyendar Jain from 2010 to 2014.
According to government sources, when prosecuted by the IT department, Mr. Jain surrendered black money in the form of Rs 16.39 crore in cash under the Income Disclosure Scheme (IDS) 2016 in the benami names of Vaibhav Jain and Ankush Jain.
In November 2019, the Home Ministry approved the prosecution of Mr. Jain in cases related to disproportionate assets and money laundering.
Himachal Pradesh assembly elections are due later this year.
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