New Delhi: In connection with the money laundering probe involving Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain, various teams of the Enforcement Directorate conducted searches at various places in the capital on Friday (June 17), an ANI report said, quoting sources. Under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, raids were conducted in the residential and office premises of persons connected with the case since morning.
Earlier on June 6, the agency had seized 2.85 crore cash and 133 gold coins weighing 1.80 kg from Jain’s associates during the day-long raid. In its previous raids, the ED has claimed to have seized various incriminating documents and digital records. Significantly, the ED had arrested Jain on May 30 under the provisions of PMLA. The trial court had on May 31 sent the Delhi minister to ED custody till June 9.
The seizures made in the earlier raid were from an “unexplained source” and were “secretly found” in the premises of the raid. This was followed by raids on the premises of Satyendar Jain, his wife Poonam Jain and their associates and other persons who had directly or indirectly assisted him or participated in money laundering processes.
According to the report, the names of those who helped the Delhi minister in money laundering are Ankush Jain, Vaibhav Jain, Naveen Jain and Siddharth Jain (Director of Ram Prakash Jewelers Pvt Ltd), GS Matharu (Chairman of Lala Sher Singh Jeevan Vigyan Trust). who runs the Prudence Group of Schools), Yogesh Kumar Jain (Director at Ram Prakash Jewelers Pvt Ltd), Ankush Jain’s father-in-law and Lala Sher Singh Jeevan Vigyan Trust.
The investigation revealed that an associate member of Lala Sher Singh Jeevan Vigyan Trust provided housing entries for transfer of land to the family members of associates from a company owned by Satyendar Jain in order to set aside the property and thwart the process of confiscation. Had.
The ED had initiated the money laundering probe on the basis of a First Information Report filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) under section 13(2) r/w 13(1)(e) on August 24, 2017. Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 against Satyendra Jain, Poonam Jain, Ajit Prasad Jain, Sunil Kumar Jain, Vaibhav Jain and Ankush Jain.
Jain was arrested in April this year after the ED attached immovable properties worth Rs 4.81 crore owned by companies named Akinchan Developers Pvt. Ltd., Indo Metal Impex Pvt Ltd, and others booked Jain, his wife Poonam Jain and others in a case of disproportionate assets and money laundering under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002.
On December 3, 2018, the CBI had filed a chargesheet against Satyendra Kumar Jain, Poonam Jain, Ajit Prasad Jain, Sunil Kumar Jain, Vaibhav Jain and Ankush Jain. The charge sheet mentions that Satyendar Jain had acquired assets disproportionate to his known sources of income while holding office as a minister in the Delhi government during the period February 14, 2015 to May 31, 2017. The CBI has accused Satyendra Kumar Jain and others of committing an offense under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.
(with agency input)