Latest Corruption Act News & Updates

Ahmedabad, April 9 (IANS) A Deputy Mamlatdar posted in Gujarat’s Surendranagar district has been booked by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) for allegedly possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income, with investigators stating that the excess wealth is over Rs 1.22 crore, or 56.89 per cent above his legitimate earnings. In an official statement issued on Wednesday, the ACB said that Chandrasinh Mori, a Class-3 officer in the Collector’s office in Surendranagar, has been …

Bhopal, March 19 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate’s Bhopal Zonal Office, on Thursday, filed a charge sheet against Jagdish Prasad Sarwate, former Deputy Director of Madhya Pradesh’s Adim Jati Kalyan Vibhag (Tribal Welfare Department), under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002. The charge sheet was filed before the Special PMLA Court in Jabalpur on March 18. On being called, Sarwate appeared before the court and received a copy of the charge sheet and relied upon documents. The ED init…

Indore, Feb 3 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday said that it has provisionally attached the properties worth Rs 39.91 lakh belonging to a former employee of Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC), Chetan Patil, and his wife Jyoti Patil under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).The federal probe agency, in a statement, said that the properties provisionally attached “are in the form of a plot and a residential building located in Indore, which are registered in the name o…