Raipur, July 27 (IANS) The Directorate of Enforcement’s (ED) Raipur Zonal Office has arrested the Chhattisgarh Public Service Commission’s (CGPSC) former Chairman Taman Singh Sonwani in a case involving corruption, question-paper leak and manipulation of the CGPSC State Service Examinations under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, an agency release said.Sonwani was arrested on July 25 under Section 19 of the PMLA and produced before the Special Court (PMLA), Raipur. The court s…
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Mumbai, July 25 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate secured from the Special Court (PMLA), Mumbai, an order to confiscate a flat in Thane (West) belonging to a co-accused in a financial fraud and partner in an infrastructure company, an official said on Saturday. The Special Court ordered the confiscation of the Proceeds of Crime under Section 8(7) of the PMLA in the matter of Yescube Infrastructure.The confiscation order was given in connection with a money laundering case involving Sandeep Shuk…
Srinagar, July 25 (IANS) The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Jammu and Kashmir Police has filed a chargesheet in the court against a man in the Cambodia job scam case, officials said on Saturday. The accused have been booked for luring youth with a fake overseas employment promise. The victims were lured with the promise of a job with Rs 90,000 monthly wages as computer operators.Officials said the victims were forced into online scamming after reaching Cambodia.A statement issued by the crime b…
Pune, July 25 (IANS) The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Pune Police has extradited and arrested Avinash Arjun Rathod, the mastermind behind a Rs 88 crore investment fraud case, from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after completing the required international legal procedures.Rathod is accused of duping investors of nearly Rs 88 crore by luring them with promises of unusually high returns.According to officials, Rathod had been absconding for a prolonged period, prompting investigating agencies to…
Srinagar, July 22 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir Crime Branch said on Wednesday that it has presented the charge sheet in court against the accused in the airport job scam case.A Crime Branch Kashmir statement said, “The Economic Offences Wing (EOW), Kashmir, of Crime Branch J&K has filed a charge-sheet before the Hon’ble Court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Srinagar, in connection with FIR No. 36/2018 registered under Sections 420, 120-B RPC read with Section 66(D) of the Information Technol…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) In a crackdown on illegal cryptocurrency, the ED attached Rs 55. 50 crore worth of immovable properties in the form of 11 commercial Galas (shops) and four residential flats in Mumbai, along with bank balances, of companies and individuals linked to “ATC Coin”, an official said on Monday. The Enforcement Directorate (ED), Mumbai Zonal Office, provisionally attached movable and immovable properties worth Rs 55.50 crore belonging to Jewria Services Club India Pvt Ltd,…
Hyderabad, July 3 (IANS) The Directorate of Enforcement’s (ED) Hyderabad Zonal Office has auctioned an aircraft (Hawker 800A) seized in a case relating to a Rs 792 crore invoice discounting scam allegedly perpetrated by Amardeep Kumar and his company, Capital Protection Force Pvt Ltd (Falcon Group), an agency statement said on Friday.The Central agency said on Friday that, in a first-of-a-kind action, it auctioned the aircraft through MSTC Limited on July 1 for a sale consideration of Rs 3 crore…
Srinagar, July 3 (IANS) J&K Crime Branch said on Friday that it has filed a charge sheet against an educational consultancy operator in a fake jobs and forged visas fraud case involving lakhs of rupees. The Economic Offences Wing (EOW), Kashmir, Crime Branch, J&K, has filed a charge sheet in FIR No. 67/2021 under Sections 420, 468 and 471 RPC against Fayaz Ahmad Zarger, son of Mohd. Shafi Zarger, resident of Qutub Din Pora, Aali Kadal, Jamia Masjid, Srinagar, before the court of the Chie…
Chennai, July 2 (IANS) The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) on Thursday said it had conducted searches at eight locations across Tamil Nadu and Kerala in connection with a money laundering investigation against M/s Dream Makers Global Pvt. Ltd. (DMGPL), which is accused of operating a multi-level marketing (MLM) and Ponzi scheme that allegedly cheated thousands of investors by promising exorbitant returns on investments. The searches were conducted under the provisions of the Prevention of Money …
Bhubaneswar, July 1 (IANS) The Odisha Police’s Economic Offences Wing (EOW) on Wednesday arrested a former bank official in connection with an alleged loan fraud worth more than Rs 3 crore, officials said. The accused banker, identified as Shiba Prasad Das, was arrested by the police officers from Trisulia area of Kataka district in Cuttack in connection with a case registered on June 19, based on a complaint filed by Varsha, the Deputy General Manager and Zonal Head of UCO Bank Kataka branch.In…