The overall worth of the connected properties is Rs 165.86 crore, the central company mentioned in a press release.
New Delhi:
The Enforcement Directorate on Monday mentioned it has connected belongings price over Rs 165 crore of Anup Majhi, the alleged mastermind of an unlawful coal mining case of West Bengal, below the anti-money laundering regulation.
“These belongings embody land, manufacturing facility premises, plant, equipment and different belongings of two companies– Ispat Damodar Personal Restricted and Sonic Thermal Personal Restricted.
“The manufacturing vegetation of each these corporations are located in Purulia and Bankura of West Bengal and beneficially owned by Anup Majhi,” the central company mentioned in a press release.
The overall worth of the connected properties is Rs 165.86 crore, it mentioned.
The ED alleged that Maji had “transferred proceeds of crime to the tune of Rs 67.80 crore to each the mentioned corporations in guise of share buy of those corporations for buying their vegetation/belongings”.
“Moreover, proceeds of crime to the tune of Rs 98.06 crore have been additionally transferred to each of the mentioned corporations,” it claimed.
These funds, totalling Rs 165.86 crore, had been layered by Maji by means of a maze of shell corporations and generated from the unlawful coal mining, it mentioned.
Majhi has been questioned few instances by the CBI on this case.
He has acquired safety from arrest on this case (until April 6) from the Supreme Courtroom, however was directed to co-operate within the probe.
The multi-crore coal pilferage rip-off is expounded to the Japanese Coalfields Ltd mines within the state’s Kunustoria and Kajora areas in and round Asansol.
The case picked up steam after Rujira Banerjee, spouse of TMC MP and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee, was questioned by the CBI a while again because the state witnesses an eight-phase polling for its 294 seat meeting.
The ED case, filed below sections of the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA), was registered after taking congnisance of a CBI FIR towards the accused.
The ED had additionally arrested state police official Ashok Mishra and TMC youth wing chief Vinay Mishra’s brother Vikas Mishra on this case.
The company had claimed that the brothers obtained “proceeds of crime price Rs 730 crore on behalf of some influential individuals and for themselves” within the alleged unlawful coal-mining case involving an estimated quantity of Rs 1,300 crore.
The CBI had registered its FIR in November final yr towards the alleged kingpin of the pilferage racket, Manjhi, ECL normal managers Amit Kumar Dhar and Jayesh Chandra Rai, ECL safety chief Tanmay Das, Kunustoria space safety inspector Dhananjay Rai and Kajor space safety in-charge Debashish Mukherjee.
