How A Probe Agency Officer Extorted Rs 40 Lakh From Tamil Nadu Doctor

Chennai:

An Enforcement Directorate officer arrested in Tamil Nadu was allegedly concerned in an extortion racket, a grievance by the police has revealed. That is the primary time Tamil Nadu has arrested an Enforcement Directorate officer. The FIR filed by Tamil Nadu police extensively particulars the function Ankit Tiwari, the arrested officer, performed within the extortion racket.

Tiwari used to textual content and message state authorities workers on WhatsApp utilizing a pretend identify – Hardik. He would demand bribes on these calls, based on the complainant Dr Suresh Babu who ended up paying him Rs 40 lakh.

The unlawful transactions would typically tackle the freeway throughout a journey, the grievance says. He met Dr Santosh when he was on his solution to Madurai, and the negotiations happened in the course of the journey. He acquired the primary installment of Rs 20 lakh bribe in money in November and requested the cash to be put in his boot which the federal government physician says was recorded by his sprint cam. The second installment was paid to him on a freeway the identical means and the Tamil Nadu Vigilance and Anti-Corruption authorities who had laid a lure chased Tiwari’s automobile to recuperate the alleged bribe cash.

In response to the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption, Mr Tiwari initially demanded Rs 3 crore to “avert authorized motion” in a case that had already been settled. He contacted the physician on October 29, claimed he was appearing on directions from the Prime Minister’s Workplace, and summoned him to the company’s Madurai workplace. When he got here, Mr Tiwari accosted him and demanded the Rs 3 crore bribe, which he later introduced all the way down to Rs 51 lakh claiming he had “spoken to his superiors”.

Neither Ankit Tiwari nor his attorneys have made any remarks but.

The state police are already at loggerheads with the Enforcement Directorate over the latter’s summons to 5 district collectors; that is in reference to a probe into alleged cash laundering linked to unlawful sand mining.

The cops are actually investigating whether or not Ankit Tiwari had intimidated and acquired giant sums of cash from others and whether or not there was a nexus with different officers in Madurai and Chennai.

Coming near the heels of the arrest of one other ED officer in Rajasthan, this has given ammunition to the opposition that alleges the Centre is deploying the probe company to tackle opposition-ruled states.