The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday arrested coal trader Izhar Ansari from his Millat Colony residence in Hazaribagh. Izhar was arrested after the ED sleuths raided his residence on Tuesday for the second time, after 03 March 2023. ED conducted search operations on three locations related to Ansari on Tuesday.
The investigation agency had raided Ansari's house for the first time on March 03, 2023. Rs 3 crore in cash was recovered in the raid from Izhar's house. Ansari is associated with the coal business since the year 1981-82 (40 years) and said to a close aide of jailed IAS officer Pooja Singhal.
In another development PLFI supremo Dinesh Gope's aide Nivesh Kumar was produced in the PMLA court on Monday after the completion of his 5-day remand period. Stating the need for re-interrogation, ED requested the court to extend his remand period. After this, the court of ED Special Judge Dinesh Rai granted three more days' remand to ED for questioning Nivesh Kumar.
Dinesh Gope's financial advisor is Nivesh Kumar. He had cheated Dinesh Gope in the name of getting foreign weapons. On January 6, 2022, he was arrested from Dhurva police station area during the anti-Naxal operation. A huge amount of cash was recovered from him. ED has taken over the case. Let us tell you that Dhurwa resident Nivesh Kumar had defrauded Dinesh Gop of lakhs of rupees in the name of getting foreign weapons. For this, he showed a photo of a fake foreign weapon to Dinesh Gope through video call and described it as a state-of-the-art weapon.
On May last year, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) had arrested Dinesh Gope, a self-styled supremo of the People’s Liberation Front of India (PLFI), a proscribed Naxal outfit of Jharkhand. The accused was involved in over 102 criminal cases and carried a reward of Rs 30 lakh.
A case was registered against Gope by the NIA in a case relate to the seizure of Rs 25.38 lakh demonetised notes from the PLFI operatives in 2016. An absconder for almost two decades, he was arrested in New Delhi.
According to the NIA investigations, criminal cases are registered against the accused in Jharkhand, Bihar and Odisha. Most of them relate to murders, abductions, threats, extortion, and raising funds for the PLFI, a militant Maoist outfit formed in 2007. It is a splinter group of the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
