'2kg' for Rs.2 crore: ED charge sheet details codes used by ex-pb min
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, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had said in a prosecution complaint.
According to a 29-page extract submitted with the main charge sheet (accessed by HT) in a special PMLA court in Gurugram on July 6, phrases such as "1.5 kg" and "2 kg" were routinely used as code words to indicate cash deliveries of Rs.1.5 crore and Rs.2 crore, respectively.
ED said its investigation revealed a structured, premeditated modus operandi designed to generate, layer and integrate proceeds of crime through a complex network of entities.
Recovered WhatsApp chats, the charge sheet says, establish a clandestine parallel cash component managed by major suppliers of Hampton Sky Realty Ltd, a company allegedly linked to Arora and his family members.
Arora was arrested from his Chandigarh residence on May 9 following raids and is currently in judicial custody. Assets worth Rs.55.57 crore linked to him have been attached....
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