Money laundering probe: ED raids babus in 10 states

The enforcement directorate on Thursday conducted nation-wide searches against several bureaucrats, including an IAS officer, in connection with its money separate money laundering cases against them on alleged corruption charges.

Sources said searches were conducted at 18 premises of 20 officers in 10 states. They said searches were conducted under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and the action was part of gathering additional data, documents and information against the accused in these cases to take forward the investigation.

In Kolkata, the agency sleuths searched the premises of an IAS officer, whom it had booked under PMLA on the basis of a case registered against him under

Searches were conducted on 18 premises of 20 officers in 10 states

In Kolkata, sleuths searched premises of an IAS officer

In Delhi, premises of three retired babus were raided

anti-corruption laws by the state government.

“It is alleged that the said officer, in connivance with some engineers, had released `60 crore by falsification and manipulation of tender documents,” the agency said in a statement.

Similarly, the agency sleuths conducted searches at the premises of a project engineer in Noida in connection with the money laundering case it is probing against former Noida chief engineer Yadav Singh.

In Delhi, three retired officers of the State Trading Corporation, including a former CMD, were raided.

“These officers had allowed transactions between STC and private parties which caused huge losses to STC. They had also approved credit limits to private parties against interests of STC,” it said.

In Tamil Nadu, the action was carried out against certain bank officials who had allegedly sanctioned loans for “extended credit facilities to private parties without obtaining proper documents.”

In Goa, ED sleuths visited the premises of a former principal chief engineer of the PWD.

Similarly, raids were conducted against certain officials of the Employees Provident Fund Office in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.

ED officials also searched the premises of an Indian Forest Service officer in Hyderabad.