CBI ARRESTS FORMER ED JOINT DIRECTOR

NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday arrested former Joint director of Enforcement Directorate (ED) JP Singh and three others on the charges of receiving bribes from an accused to hush up a case related to the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket-betting scam.

Singh, a 2000-batch Indian Revenue Service officer of the Customs and Excise wing, was arrested along with another ED official Sanjay Kumar and two private persons Vimal Aggarwal and Chandresh Patel.

The CBI had registered an FIR in the case in September, 2015, when Singh was posted in Ahmedabad as a joint director in the ED while Sanjay Kumar was his subordinate then. The agency had also carried out searches at various places in Mumbai.

Following the registration of the case, Singh was repatriated to his parent cadre.

The accused will be produced in the special CBI court in Ahmedabad.

In its FIR, the CBI had alleged that certain officers of the ED while investigating the cases of money laundering in betting and other such activities allegedly demanded and accepted huge illegal gratification from the accused and suspects in the cases.

The cases being probed by the ED’s Ahmedabad unit included the ₹2,000-crore IPL betting scandal and the ₹5,000-crore money laundering case against alleged hawala operator Afroz Fatta.

JP SINGH WAS ARRESTED ALONG WITH ANOTHER ED OFFICIAL SANJAY KUMAR AND TWO PRIVATE PERSONS VIMAL AGGARWAL AND CHANDRESH PATEL.