Tag: Enforcement Directorate

  • ED attaches Anwar Dhebar’s Hotel Vennington Court

    ED attaches Anwar Dhebar’s Hotel Vennington Court

    Raipur. The ED has attached 119 properties worth ₹121.87 crore of IAS Anil Tuteja, Anwar Dhebar, Arunpati Tripathi, Arvind Singh and Vikas Agarwal in the ₹2000 crore liquor scam case of Chhattisgarh. In this, 14 properties belong to IAS Anil Tuteja, whose value is ₹ 8.883 crore. In this, earlier the agency had attached assets worth ₹ 58 crores i.e. assets worth ₹ 180 crores have been attached so far. In which Anwar Dhebar’s Hotel Vennington Court is also included.

  • ‘You do not deserve any sympathy’: Supreme Court rejects bail plea of ex-CMD of Amrapali Group

    ‘You do not deserve any sympathy’: Supreme Court rejects bail plea of ex-CMD of Amrapali Group

    The Supreme Court has rejected the bail plea of former CMD of Amrapali Group of Companies Anil Kumar Sharma, saying he cheated hundreds of residence consumers and didn’t deserve any sympathy.

    A bench comprising Justices Ajay Rastogi and Bela M Trivedi refused to challenge discovery to the prosecuting company on the bail plea of Sharma, who has been in jail for over 4 years within the case.

    “You have cheated thousands of home buyers. You siphoned off their hard-earned money and their life savings. You do not deserve any sympathy,” the bench said on Thursday.

    The former CMD of the Actual Property group and different administrators of the agency had been arrested on the course of the highest courtroom after the forensic audit report revealed that a considerable amount of residence consumers’ cash was siphoned off by the administration.

    It stated the offense ran “very deep” and even the courtroom was dealing with difficulties in tackling the issue.

    “Yours is not a case of simple cheating. See the plight of thousands of home buyers. You cannot have our sympathy. You better enjoy being in jail. This court is very aware of what you did. You created the mess and we are not able to find a way out of it. A large number of home buyers are suffering,” the bench stated.

    Earlier, the highest courtroom had granted Sharma interim bail for a couple of weeks on medical grounds within the case.

    Sharma and others have been in jail after their arrest in 2018 for varied offences, together with that of dishonest, felony breach of trust and cash laundering and have spent almost 4 years in jail.

    They have been accused of siphoning residence consumers cash.

    The apex courtroom, in its July 23, 2019 verdict, had cracked down on errant builders for breaching the belief reposed by residence consumers and ordered the cancellation of registration of the Amrapali Group below actual property legislation RERA and ousted it from prime properties within the nationwide capital area (NCR) by nixing the land leases.

    The high courtroom had directed a probe by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) into alleged cash laundering by realtors, offering reduction to over 42,000 residence consumers of the Amrapali Group with the decision.

    Besides ED, the Economic Offenses Wing (EoW) of the Delhi Police and the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) have additionally been investigating various circumstances lodged in opposition to the previous officers of the actual property group.

    NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has rejected the bail plea of former CMD of Amrapali Group of Companies Anil Kumar Sharma, saying he cheated hundreds of residential consumers and didn’t deserve any sympathy.

    A bench comprising Justices Ajay Rastogi and Bela M Trivedi refused to challenge discovery to the prosecuting company on the bail plea of Sharma, who has been in jail for over 4 years within the case.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show (‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    “You have cheated thousands of home buyers. You siphoned off their hard-earned money and their life savings. You do not deserve any sympathy,” the bench said on Thursday.

    The former CMD of the Actual Property group and different administrators of the agency had been arrested on the course of the highest courtroom after the forensic audit report revealed that a considerable amount of residence consumers’ cash was siphoned off by the administration.

    It stated the offense ran “very deep” and even the courtroom was dealing with difficulties in tackling the issue.

    “Yours is not a case of simple cheating. See the plight of thousands of home buyers. You cannot have our sympathy. You better enjoy being in jail. This court is very aware of what you did. You created the mess and we are not able to find a way out of it. A large number of home buyers are suffering,” the bench stated.

    Earlier, the highest courtroom had granted Sharma interim bail for a couple of weeks on medical grounds within the case.

    Sharma and others have been in jail after their arrest in 2018 for varied offences, together with that of dishonest, felony breach of trust and cash laundering and have spent almost 4 years in jail.

    They have been accused of siphoning residence consumers cash.

    The apex courtroom, in its July 23, 2019 verdict, had cracked down on errant builders for breaching the belief reposed by residence consumers and ordered the cancellation of registration of the Amrapali Group below actual property legislation RERA and ousted it from prime properties within the nationwide capital area (NCR) by nixing the land leases.

    The high courtroom had directed a probe by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) into alleged cash laundering by realtors, offering reduction to over 42,000 residence consumers of the Amrapali Group with the decision.

    Besides ED, the Economic Offenses Wing (EoW) of the Delhi Police and the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) have additionally been investigating various circumstances lodged in opposition to

  • Sukanya Mandal arrested in cattle smuggling case

    Sukanya Mandal arrested in cattle smuggling case

    West Bengal. The Enforcement Directorate (ED), probing the multi-crore cattle smuggling scam in West Bengal, had summoned Sukanya Mandal, daughter of Trinamool Congress stalwart Anubrata Mandal, for questioning. According to information received from ED sources, it is being told that Sukanya Mandal has been arrested. Let us tell you that Sukanya’s father Anubrata Mandal was arrested by Eden on November 17 last year.
    Sukanya Mandal, daughter of Trinamool Congress strongman Anubrata Mandal, arrested in West Bengal’s famous cattle smuggling case, has been arrested by the ED in Delhi today after a long interrogation. According to the information, ED had summoned Sukanya Mandal for questioning in Delhi. The ED was trying to find out from Sukanya, a teacher by profession, whether her accounts were used in the cattle smuggling case. How did they suddenly get so much money in their accounts. There are many other questions which the ED wanted to know from him.
    CBI has also interrogated Sukanya
    In the animal smuggling case in Bengal, on 23 September 2022, the CBI also reached the house of jailed Trinamool Congress leader Anubrata Mandal in Nichupatti area of Bolpur. A CBI team interrogated his daughter Sukanya Mandal in a cattle smuggling case. It is being told that there was also a woman officer in the three-member team. The investigating officer stayed at the house for about an hour. The team also visited a nearby post office. Sukanya Mandal is a shareholder in a rice mill owned by her father.
    CBI officials visited the rice mill and seized some vehicles. Mandal was arrested by the CBI on August 11 in the cattle smuggling case and is currently lodged in jail. During the investigation, the CBI also got information about one of the rice mills, ‘Bhole Bam Rice Mill’. Shyamal Mandal, the former owner of the said rice mill, was called to the temporary camp office of the CBI for questioning, where he was questioned on Friday.

  • Karti Chidambaram’s property worth Rs 11 crore seized, ED made a big deal

    Karti Chidambaram’s property worth Rs 11 crore seized, ED made a big deal

    New Delhi. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday attached assets worth Rs 11.04 crore of Congress MP Karti Chidambaram in the INX money laundering case. This information was given in an official statement here. The ED said that one of the four attached properties is an immovable property located in Coorg district of Karnataka. A provisional order has been issued against Karti under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), the statement said. Karti Chidambaram, son of former Union minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram, is the sitting MP from Sivagangai Lok Sabha seat in Tamil Nadu and was arrested by both the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and ED in the INX case.
    The case pertains to alleged receipt of illegal funds directly or indirectly from INX Media Pvt Ltd, which was cleared by the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) during his father’s tenure as Union Finance Minister in the then United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. approval was received. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday attached assets worth Rs 11.04 crore of Congress MP Karti Chidambaram in the INX Media money laundering case. The ED said that one of the four attached properties is an immovable property located in Coorg district of Karnataka. The statement said that a provisional order has been issued against Karti under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
    Karti Chidambaram, son of former Union Minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram, is the sitting MP from Sivagangai Lok Sabha seat in Tamil Nadu. And he was arrested by both CBI and ED in INX case. The matter pertains to money received directly or indirectly from INX Media Private Limited. It had received Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) approval during his father P Chidambaram’s tenure as Union Finance Minister in the UPA government.
    what is the matter
    A private company was setting up a 1980 MW thermal power plant at Mansa in Punjab. Its responsibility was given to a Chinese company. It is alleged that this project was getting delayed. To speed up the work, Chinese professionals were brought to Mansa. Visa was arranged for them by a person from Chennai with the help of some of his colleagues. The rules were ignored in this. A total of 263 project visas were issued. Not only this, this private company wrote a letter to the Home Ministry and requested to re-issue visas to all these visa holders. Its approval was also received in a month. It is alleged that a person from Chennai demanded a bribe of Rs 50 lakh with the help of his associates. It is alleged that Mansa’s private company sent this bribe to Chennai through a fake bill of a company in Mumbai.