The Enforcement Directorate on Friday raided premises linked to businessman Navneet Kalra and his associates in reference to a current case of alleged hoarding and black-marketing of oxygen concentrators that are being anxiously scoured by these gasping for breath amid COVID-19 pandemic outbreak.
Official sources stated the searches are being performed at numerous places in the nationwide capital below provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). The raids are aimed to collect further proof, they stated.
The Enforcement Directorate (EC) had just lately booked Kalra and others below the anti-money laundering regulation, taking cognisance of a Delhi Police FIR filed on May 5 after policemen raided some eating places and premises owned and linked to Kalra.
The police had recovered greater than 500 of those life-saving machines from there and it was alleged that they have been being hoarded and offered in the black market. Kalra had denied any wrongdoing and claimed the consignment was saved for normal sale. He was despatched to 14 days judicial custody by a neighborhood courtroom right here on Thursday.
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