Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav on Tuesday left the Enforcement Directorate headquarters right here after being questioned for eight hours in reference to the alleged land for job case involving his father and former Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav and different members of the family. He reached the ED headquarters at 11 a.m. and left at round 9.10 p.m. The CBI had questioned Tejashwi Yadav within the matter on March 25, and on the identical day, his sister and Rajya Sabha member Misa Bharti was questioned. In March, the ED claimed unaccounted money of Rs 1 crore, $1,900, 540 gms gold and 1.5 kg of gold jewelry and different incriminating paperwork have been recovered in the course of the raids performed at 24 places in Delhi, Mumbai, Patna and in Ranchi based mostly on particular intelligence inputs.
The ED had mentioned that they detected round Rs 600 crore in “proceeds of crime” which have been within the type of immovable properties of Rs 350 crore and transactions of Rs 250 Crore routed by numerous benamidaars. It alleged that the PMLA investigation performed to this point has revealed that a number of items of land at distinguished places in Patna and different areas have been illegally acquired by the household of Lalu Prasad in lieu of jobs offered in Railways. The present market worth of those land parcels is greater than Rs 200 crore and several other benamidars, shell entities and useful homeowners for these lands have been recognized.
“A property situated at D-1088, New Friends Colony, Delhi (independent 4 storied bungalow, registered in the name of A.B. Exports Private Ltd, a company owned and controlled by Tejashwi Prasad Yadav and family) was shown to have been acquired at a value of mere Rs 4 lakh, the present market value of which is approximately Rs 150 crore,” the ED claimed. An official claimed that vast amount of money/Proceeds of Crime have been infused in buying this property and few Mumbai-based entities, dealing within the gems and jewelry sector, have been used to channel ill-gotten proceeds of crime on this regard. “The property has been though, on paper, declared as office of A.B. Exports Private Ltd and AK Infosystems Pvt Ltd, is being exclusively used as residential premises by Tejashwi Prasad. During the searches, Tejashwi Prasad was found to be staying at this house and was found to be using this house as his residential property,” the ED alleged.
The ED mentioned that their investigation has discovered that 4 parcels of lands acquired by the household of Lalu Yadav for simply Rs 7.5 lakh from poor Group-D candidates have been bought to former RJD MLA Syed Abu Dojana by Rabri Devi with enormous features at Rs 3.5 crore. It mentioned that their investigation has additional revealed {that a} main portion of the quantity thus acquired, was transferred to the account of Tejashwi Prasad.
