ED intensifies coal levy scam probe in Chhattisgarh, attaching assets worth ₹273 crore
The attachment has been carried out under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, through a Provisional Attachment Order.
The attachment has been carried out under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, through a Provisional Attachment Order.
A dramatic scene played out in Dhanbad on Friday morning when coal contractor L B Singh allegedly released his pet dogs to block Enforcement Directorate officers from entering his residence.
Chhattisgarh’s high-profile coal levy scam took a dramatic turn on Friday after the Supreme Court granted interim bail to six individuals, including suspended IAS officers Ranu Sahu and Sameer Vishnoi, as well as former Deputy Secretary to the former Chief Minister, Saumya Chaurasia.
The charge framing is once again deferred in the high profile coal scam case in CBI Special Court in Asansol today as one of the main accused Bikash Mishra was not present in the court.
After the coal scam, Coal India is now perturbed with the desperate pilferage of fund from its exchequer to the tune of several crores in the name of production and dispatch of processed overburden (POB)
The CBI and ED both had quizzed Trinamul Congress national general secretary and MP and chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee and his wife Rujira Banerjee in connection with the case.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday arrested seven officials, including a serving general manager of Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL), in connection with the coal smuggling scam in West Bengal.
The source claimed that the agency officers would like to record his statements again in following new leads that might have emerged following interrogation of aides of scam kingpin Anup Majhi alias Lala, whose residences had been raided by the officers of the agency as well as the CBI.
He is understood to have been questioned about his links to other accused in the case and in the context of two companies allegedly linked to his family in which some purported illegal transactions were done
Sources said several officials and political leaders from Asansol to North Bengal districts allegedly received huge kickbacks even as they helped the illegal coal business and allowed coal-laden lorries to pass through National Highway-34 and 31 in this region.
