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Former ED official, three others held in IPL scam case

JP Singh, a 2000-batch Indian Revenue Service officer of the Customs and Excise wing, has accused of favouring an accused in the IPL cricket-betting scam and diluting the probe.

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In a major jolt to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) JP Singh, one of the agency’s former Joint Directors (JD), was arrested on Tuesday by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for allegedly receiving bribes to manipulate the probe into the IPL cricket-betting scam which he was overseeing.

JP Singh, a 2000-batch Indian Revenue Service officer of the Customs and Excise wing, has accused of favouring an accused in the IPL cricket-betting scam and diluting the probe. 

Sources said Singh was part of  ED’s Ahmedabad unit which was probing two important cases — Rs 2,000 crore IPL betting scandal and Rs 5,000 crore money laundering case against alleged hawala operator Afroz Fatta in which the suspects allegedly sought favours.

Along with Singh, CBI also arrested another official of the ED named Sanjay Kumar who according to officials was posted as the Assistant Director in the agency. Two other private persons Bimal Aggarwal and Chandresh Patel were arrested as well and agency did not rule out the possibility of further arrests. 
 

CBI officials said the arrested accused have been booked under criminal conspiracy, misconduct and other sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act. All the four were arrested and produced before a designated court which granted them a transit remand till February 23 so that they can be produced before the CBI court in Ahmedabad.

“It has been alleged that certain officers of Enforcement Directorate while investigating the cases of money laundering in betting and other such activities have allegedly demanded and accepted huge illegal gratification from the accused and suspect persons in the said cases. Huge bribe amount was allegedly taken by these officers as quid pro quo for various acts of omission and commission,” said RK Gaur, CBI spokesperson.

About JP Singh

Who: JP Singh, a 2000-batch Indian Revenue Service officer of the Customs and Excise wing accused of: Favouring an accused in the IPL cricket-betting scam and diluting the probe
Other arrested: An official of the ED named Sanjay Kumar Two other private persons Bimal Aggarwal and Chandresh Patel 

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