The raids come a day after the CBI conducted raids across four states in a corruption case in which Lalu, his wife Rabri Devi, and his son and Bihar's Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav were booked among others.
In an another jolt to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) carried searches at three premises of his daughter Misa Bharti and her husband Shailesh Kumar in the national Capital on Saturday in a money laundering case. The agency also examined Misa and Shailesh for several hours.
The raids come a day after the CBI conducted raids across four states in a corruption case in which Lalu, his wife Rabri Devi, and his son and Bihar's Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav were booked among others. The case pertains to manipulation in awarding of contract for maintenance of two hotels run by IRCTC which took place when the RJD chief was railway minister.
About the raids, a senior officer of the agency said, "Searches were carried out at the premises of Mishail Packers and Printers Pvt Ltd at Bijwasan and the residential premises of its directors — Shailesh Kumar and Misa Bharti — at Ghitorni and Sainik Farms in New Delhi in connection with Prevention of Money Laundering Act investigation." The officer also stated that during the searches various incriminating documents, electronic devices, including mobile phones, have been recovered and seized.
Investigation by probe agencies has pointed out that a man identified as Vinay Mittal has played a pivotal role in helping Lalu's family to purchase properties not only in Delhi but also in Bihar. Both Income Tax and ED found that Mittal introduced Lalu's son-in-law Shailesh to chartered accountant Rajesh Agarwal, who is already arrested by ED in a money laundering racket. Through an intricate network of shell companies, Agarwal had laundered money into Mishail Packers and Printers Pvt. Ltd.
Sources in the agencies said that they are now probing how Shailesh allegedly got the black money or who gave it to him.
During probe, ED found that in 2007 Shailesh enquired from Mittal how to converted ill gotten money into white. Mittal then introduced to his brother-in-law Rajesh Aggarwal. Mittal is also being quizzed by probe agencies into the matter.
Mittal during interrogation has stated that he got in touch with Shailesh through Amit Katyal, under whom he was working. It is alleged was Katyal had felicitated land deals for Lalu's family in Patna. "We are also probing the role of Katyal," said the senior officer.
Further, Agarwal introduced Shailesh to businessmen Virendra and Surendra Jain. The Jain brothers were arrested by ED in Rs 8000 crore money laundering case this year.
During probe against Jain brothers it has come out that the 1,20,000 shares of Mishail Packers and Printers Pvt. Ltd. were bought during 2007 and 2008 at the rate of Rs 100 per share by four shell companies -- Shalini Holdings Limited, Ad-Fin Capital Services (India) Pvt. Ltd., Mani Mala Delhi Properties Pvt. Ltd. and Diamond Vinimay Pvt. Ltd.
Out of these shell companies, except Diamond Vinimay Pvt. Ltd, were registered at Delhi and were managed and controlled by Jain Brothers . The company Diamond Vinimay Pvt. Ltd is a Kolkata based company. The above mentioned 1,20,000 shares were bought back by Misa at the price of Rs 10 per share.
During investigation, it has been gathered that Agarwal had provided cash of Rs 90 lakhs to Jain brothers in advance so as to invest in Mishail Packers and Printers Pvt Ltd as share premium. It was also found that Mishail Packers and Printers Pvt. Ltd was registered at the address 25, Tuglak Road, New Delhi till the shares were bought back by Misa . It was only during the year 2009 and 2010 that the address was changed to Farm number 26 Palam Farms, Bijwasan in New Delhi
Now the agency is probing from who arranged the cash and how three farms houses were purchased.
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