Bhopal

Three booked in Tinu Joshi, Arvind Joshi corruption case

Staff Reporter

Three people, including a woman, were booked for fraud by the MP Nagar police in connection with the IAS couple Tinu Joshi and Arvind Joshi corruption case. The police registered a case after a complaint was lodged by the Special Police Establishment (SPE) of lokayukta. Police said that case was registered after the lokayukta police submitted documents supporting the complaint. The investigation has been started into the matter.

In the complaint accused Mirza Ali who used to handle money transactions for tainted sacked IAS Joshi couple facilitated the money deposit in Karnatak Bank with the help of Seema Jaiswal and Santosh Jaiswal. The other two who helped Ali in money transactions were Seema Jaiswal and Santosh Jaiswal. Seema who is Santosh’s wife acted as guarantor for the account opening while Santosh prepared a fake rent agreement for account opening.

Interestingly, the account was opened specifically to deposit money received from the Joshi couple and used to later channelise the money deposited in the account based on the instructions given by Joshi’s.  During the investigation police found that the three were involved in converting black money to white. The case was registered on the complaint lodged with DSP Vinod Sharma regarding the facilitation of money transactions by the three for Joshi couple.