Tag: Scam

ED raids 22 locations in UP in connection with scholarship scam

 The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has conducted raids across 22 locations in six districts of Uttar Pradesh in connection with "fraudulent" availment of post-matriculation scholarships by various educational institutes across the state, according to an official statement.

February 18, 2023

Three held for multi crore agro-equipment subsidy scam in Odisha

The three persons managed the government subsidies, meant for farmers, by uploading fake documents and information on the portal. They, further, collected cheques in advance, from the beneficiaries before the subsidy amounts were credited in the bank accounts.

December 17, 2022

Delhi: Vigilance directorate highlights Rs 1300 crore scam in constructing school classrooms, recommends probe

DoV has recommended a "detailed investigation" into "grave irregularities and corruption" in construction of classrooms in government schools.

November 25, 2022

Multi-crore co-op society scam: Punjab Vigilance arrests one more

During a surprise audit by the technical team of the Cooperative Department, it was found that the fixed deposits and loans taken by the society members between 2012 and 2018 were embezzled to the tune of Rs 4,24,02,561.

October 28, 2022

ED detains Sena MP Sanjay Raut in Patra Chawl land scam

He will be taken to the ED office later on Sunday evening for further action, including the strong probability of arrest, on alleged grounds of 'non-cooperation' with the probe.

July 31, 2022

WBSSC scam: ED tracks Rs 8 cr transactions from 8 frozen bank accounts

ED sources said that now they are trying to track the two-way money trail in these bank accounts, the first being the source from where such huge amounts were transferred to these accounts and the second being the channels where such funds were transferred in due course.

July 31, 2022

Woman held in Rs 7 crore chit fund scam

The accused persons being the directors of the Bhubaneswar-based company had lured gullible people to invest money in their company for higher interests by investing the amount in share market for lucrative profit.

May 6, 2022

Shell company proprietor held from Ghaziabad in fake loan App scam

IWT India operated as a shell company to divert the money. Its proprietor Saifi used to get a small commission for it. It was further ascertained that several crores of rupees have been transacted through the account of IWT India. The account holder Mohd Javed Saifi could not explain this huge transaction, it stated.

May 6, 2022

BJP-police clash at Salt Lake on SSC scam

BJP MP and national president of the Bharatiya Janata Yuba Morcha (BJYM) Tejasvi Surya said youths of Bengal are deprived of jobs.

April 27, 2022

ED questions Omar Abdullah in connection with J-K Bank scam

Abdullah appeared before the investigators around 11 am at ED's headquarters. The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) leader was earlier summoned by the ED and was asked to visit its office on Thursday here.

April 7, 2022

Mayawati seeks SC intervention in Ayodhya land scam

The state government has already set up an inquiry into the alleged scam.

December 23, 2021

Akash India chit fund scam: Fugitive director held for Rs 3 crore fraud

The fugitive economic offender Sudarsan Senapati arrested under relevant sections of Indian Penal Code, Prize Chits & Money Circulation Scheme (Banning) Act, 1978 & Sec. 6 of Odisha Protection of Interests of Depositors (in financial establishment) Act, 2011 was later produced before the Odisha Protection of Interests of Depositors (OPID) Court in Cuttack.

November 26, 2021

Karnataka govt refers drug, bitcoin scam probe to ED, CBI

Former Karnataka chief minister and Congress leader Siddaramaiah alleged that politicians and officials were involved in a Bitcoin scam in the state and that the investigation agencies are trying to safeguard them.

October 29, 2021

Two former Congress MP link party unit chief D K Shivakumar to scam

The development follows a video  that went viral highlighting a private conversation between Saleem and Ugrappa  just before a press conference that they were set to address

October 13, 2021

Industry minister Partha Chatterjee dodges CBI summon in I-Core scam

It has been learnt that the CBI has found direct relation of Chatterjee with I-Core group where he was found speaking in favour of the group in an event during the presence of its owner and they want to interrogate him on the basis of that

September 13, 2021

Suspended engineer arrested in multi-crore scam in UP

Mishra is an accused in the Rs 2.11-crore scam wherein the construction of a road between Chakeri and Pali was shown on papers fraudulently, the police officer said.

October 28, 2020

UP Deputy CM Keshav Maurya writes to Yogi about scam in LDA

Keshav Maurya further pointed out that companies found guilty of irregularities in the construction of Parijat, Panchsheel, Smriti, Srishti and Sahaj apartments, were not blacklisted and were even given more work.

November 14, 2019