According to sources, the probe agency has been looking into the accusations made in a petition to the Allahabad high court last month in which it was claimed that Singh, in order to show his wife, Kusumlata, as a separate entity had divorced her a few years ago.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), currently probing Yadav Singh and his family for allegedly amassing assets worth crores of rupees, has begun investigations to ascertain whether the former Noida chief engineer might have divorced his wife with an intention to raise wealth in her name through shell companies.
According to sources, the probe agency has been looking into the accusations made in a petition to the Allahabad high court last month in which it was claimed that Singh, in order to show his wife, Kusumlata, as a separate entity had divorced her a few years ago.
According to CBI officials, investigators are looking into almost forty shell companies which belong to Singh's wife, with the largest being Meenu Creations, a designer clothes manufacturer in which Kusumlata is designated as the director. The other companies currently under CBI scanner include Kusumlata Garments and McConn Infra Private Ltd in which Singh's wife was a director but left her job in 2012-2013. The major allegation on these companies is that they got 30 to 40 plots alloted in Noida by forming bogus share holdings following which the shares were offloaded. McConn Infra Private Ltd and Meenu Creations were among the 17 premises which were raided by CBI sleuths on Tuesday.
"The allegations levelled against the accused that are mentioned in the petition are of a serious nature and investigations into the same have already initiated," said a CBI official. The official added that it is being ascertained that companies registered under the name of Kusumlata have paper paper work which can shed light on the marital status of the accused. However, the official added that the focus of the investigation continues to be of disproportionate assets. "We are probing all possible angles," the official said.
An official source told dna that till 2013 most of the wealth acquired by Singh was in the name of her wife following the couple filed a divorce. However when the same issue was raised in the Allahabad high court, the defense informed the bench that couple were and continue to be married.
Nutan Thakur, the RTI activist who had filed the PIL against Singh claims Kusum Lata other than heading the shell companies also"controlled" all the money her husband got from the eight big and 27 small infrastructure companies in return of the benefits given to them. She said that garment business was more of a front for diverting funds to and fro. "They were point companies meant for transactions. Money was being pumped into them and passed of as sale of garments," Nutan told dna.
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