Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MP Amarendra Dhari Singh has been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in reference to a probe of cash laundering case linked to an alleged fertiliser rip-off. Singh, a Rajya Sabha member from Bihar has been arrested by the probing company in Delhi on late Wednesday evening below numerous sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
A medical check of Singh was performed after his arrest and he’s being interrogated by the ED officers.
The case pertains to an alleged fertiliser rip-off linked to the Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited (IFFCO) – a multi-state farmers’ cooperative and India Potash Limited (IPL) – an organization of IFFCO which provides fertilisers at authorities subsidies.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had registered a corruption case final month. According to the CBI, each IFFCO and IPL officers had imported fertilisers at extremely inflated charges from 2007 to 2014 as a way to declare for increased subsidies. Based on the case registered by CBI, the ED is taking additional actions. ED had performed raids at about 12 locations together with Delhi, Mumbai and Haryana.
Amarendra Dhari Singh was despatched to Rajya Sabha from Bihar by RJD for the primary time in 2020. Well-known businessman, Singh is taken into account very near former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Yadav’s household. Late Congress chief Ahmed Patel was additionally very near Singh.
Singh is said to be the senior vp of Jyoti Trading Corporation, a agency concerned within the fertiliser rip-off case. The RJD MP has been within the enterprise of export and import of fertilisers for the reason that 90s. He imports fertilizers for personal firms and exports them to the Middle-East and different international locations. Apart from the fertiliser enterprise, he additionally offers in actual property.
Singh is a resident of Bikram, a city and an meeting constituency in Paliganj subdivision of Patna district in Bihar. Singh comes from a landlord household in Ainkhan village of Patna district.
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