Jalandhar, July 11 -- The Enforcement Directorate has filed a chargesheet against jailed Punjab minister Sanjeev Arora in Rs.102.5-crore money laundering probe linked to alleged fraudulent Goods and Services Tax (GST) transactions pertaining to fake mobile phone (iPhone) export bills.

In the chargesheet filed at Special PMLA Court in Gurugram on July 6, the federal agency has termed Arora as the "key person" involved in the offence of money laundering by bogus billing, fraud, forgery and payment to shell entities. On May 9, Sanjeev Arora (62) was arrested by the federal agency from his official residence in Chandigarh after raids, leading to political uproar in Punjab.

"Arora is knowingly a party and is actually involved in generation, ...