The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday raided the premises linked to former Cabinet minister and Congress leader Harak Singh Rawat, stated the sources.
The searches have been carried out at a number of premises in Uttarakhand, Delhi and Chandigarh, they stated.
Apart from Harak Rawat, a number of different individuals have been additionally raided in a large crackdown at greater than 10 places.
According to the supply, ED’s large motion is linked to the alleged forest land rip-off below PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act). The ED investigation is known to be linked to alleged unlawful actions in the state’s Corbett Tiger Reserve.
In August final 12 months, the Vigilance Department had additionally taken motion in opposition to Rawat.
Rawat had give up the BJP forward of the 2022 Uttarakhand Assembly elections and joined the Congress.
ED raids AAP leaders
The improvement comes a day after the ED carried out raids at a number of places of leaders from one other opposition celebration – AAP. 23 ED officers carried out raids at AAP nationwide convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s private assistant’s residence. Kejriwal stated the officers raided his PA’s residence for 16 hours however didn’t discover something. He additionally claimed that the homes of AAP leaders reminiscent of Manish Sisodia, Satyendar Jain and Sanjay Singh have been raided as nicely. But even there, the ED didn’t discover something, the nationwide convener of the celebration stated.
The ED on Tuesday searched the premises of Kejriwal’s private assistant (PA) Bibhav Kumar and others as a part of its probe into costs that the AAP and a few officers obtained kickbacks of about Rs 21 crore via alleged irregularities in a Delhi Jal Board (DJB) contract, official sources stated.
The motion is a part of a cash laundering investigation specializing in alleged bribes that have been garnered via irregularities in the DJB tendering course of and purportedly channelled as election funds to the AAP, they stated.
A dozen premises in the nationwide capital have been searched by ED officers from 7 am below the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
The residences of Bibhav Kumar, former DJB member Shalabh Kumar, the workplace of celebration Rajya Sabha member and nationwide treasurer N D Gupta, and the premises of chartered accountant Pankaj Mangal and others related to the ruling celebration in Delhi have been lined in the search motion.
