Jalandhar, July 15 -- Financial transactions in the Rs.102.5-crore money laundering case linked to jailed Punjab minister Sanjeev Arora were routed through WhatsApp groups using coded expressions, a prosecution complaint filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has revealed.

According to a 29-page extract submitted with the main chargesheet (accessed by HT) in a special PMLA court in Gurugram, phrases like "1.5 kg" and "2 kg" were routinely deployed as code words to facilitate cash deliveries of Rs.1.5 crore and Rs.2 crore, respectively.

The federal agency claimed that the investigation revealed a structured and premeditated modus operandi engineered to generate, layer, and integrate proceeds of the crime through a complex network of e...