The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday arrested former Managing Director of the Chhattisgarh State Cooperative Marketing Federation (MARKFED) Manoj Soni in connection with the alleged custom rice milling scam.
He was presented before the special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) Court which sent him into five days ED custody till May 4.
The agency detained Soni from the Anti Corruption Bureau/Economic Offences Wing (ACB/ EOW) office in Raipur where he had gone to record his statement.
In January 2024, the Chhattisgarh Anti-Corruption Bureau /Economic Offences Wing (ACB/EOW) had registered an FIR in connection with the alleged custom rice milling scam based on a complaint of the Enforcement Directorate.
In the custom milling case, the ED report claimed that corruption had been committed in the process of depositing rice to the state Civil Supplies Corp and the Food Corp of India by rice millers after custom milling of rice.
“In this process, corruption was done on a large scale and money was collected. Various government officials misused their position and colluded with the rice millers and received undue benefits causing financial loss to the government.”
