The development comes even as the jailed officer was granted bail by HC to secure his house
The Enforcement Directorate (ED), Ahmedabad, filed a supplementary prosecution complaint or charge-sheet against retired IAS officer Pradeep Sharma for money laundering before the designated special court at Ahmedabad on Saturday. The ED had filed the prosecution complaint against Sharma on September 27, 2016.
The development comes even as Sharma was granted bail earlier this week by the Gujarat High Court to enable him secure his house in Gandhinagar which has seen a number of burglaries of late. Sharma is in jail in a bribery case dating back to 2010. He is facing a number of such cases related to corruption.
The Directorate of Enforcement (DoE) had initiated money laundering investigation against the 1994-batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre on the basis of FIRs registered by CID Crime, Rajkot. CID had alleged that Sharma had abused his power as Kutch collector, and caused loss to the exchequer by allotting land to Welspun at a lower rate.
ED said that during its investigation, it was revealed that Sharma had made investment of Rs 1 lakh in Value Packaging in his wife's name in 2008. ED said that investment was made to channelise Rs 29 lakh in the guise of profit distribution by the said firm. His wife was one of the partners of the firm, and ED alleged that the officer had used her NRO bank account for the purpose of layering Rs 22 lakh that he had received from the firm.
According to ED, out of the Rs 22 lakh, Rs 10 lakh was transferred to Sharma's brother in-law Shvetang Dewashrayee, which it had attached on June 7 last month. The agency said that the Adjudicating Authority of Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), New Delhi, had confirmed the attachment.
ED claimed that Sharma had invested proceeds of the crime in immovable properties and also transferred Rs 1 crore outside the country through hawala channels in his wife's bank account in US. ED said that it had attached assets worth Rs 1.19 crore so far.
"Now, a supplementary complaint has been filed before the designated special court with respect to attachment of Rs 10 lakh. Cognizance has been taken by the court on filing of the complaint," ED said in a release.
JAMNAGAR LAND MAFIA’S ASSETS ATTACHED
- The ED on Friday attached assets worth Rs 7.5 crore in the form of 24 properties and bank balance of Jaysukh alias Jayesh Patel and his associates in a case related to usurping of land in Jamnagar.
- A case of money laundering was registered against Patel in November 2016 on the basis of two FIRs by Jamnagar Police. The FIRs alleged that Patel had usurped two properties having market value of Rs 135 crore in the name of his associates using fake power of attorney documents.
- ED said that Patel later settled the matter with the land owners in lieu of Rs 7 crore which were credited to his associates’ bank accounts.
- According to the probe agency, Patel had amassed huge properties through his modus operandi. It said that it attached 24 plots and flats owned by Patel whose market value is Rs 4.5 crore. Additionally, approximately Rs 3 crore in accounts of his four associates were also attached, ED added
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