PMLA case: Misa Bharti puts onus on husband, dead CA
Shrugging off her responsibility, RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s daughter Misa Bharti has put the onus of running a company being probed for money laundering on her husband and a dead CA, even though the ED has said that the duo “actively conspired” to launder Rs 1.2 crore using shell firms.
The agency, in its chargesheet filed against the couple in December, had said they were “party and actively connected with proceeds of crime including its concealment, possession, acquisition or use and projecting or claiming it as untainted property, and thus are guilty of offence of money laundering.”
A special court in Delhi took cognisance of the chargesheet - called the prosecution complaint under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act - and summoned the couple as accused in the case, reports PTI.
They are scheduled to appear before the court on Monday.
The case is related to the purchase of a farm house in Delhi by Misa Bharti and her husband in the name of their company - Ms Mishail Packers and Printers Pvt Ltd - “using Rs 1.2 crore involved in money laundering in the year 2008-09.”
Misa has been questioned by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the case. She gave brief replies and told the agency that the day-to-day business activities of the firm were “looked after by her husband Shailesh Kumar and the financial records of this company were maintained by the CA of the company, late Sandeep Sharma.”
Hence, she said, her husband and the deceased CA “would be in a better position” to answer questions about the company and the farmhouse purchased by it.
PTI has accessed a copy of the chargesheet.