The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday filed supplementary Prosecution Complaint (chargesheet in police parlance) against accused firm Classic Coal Construction Pvt Ltd and others under money laundering charge for confiscation of attached properties and award of punishment in connection with the bitumen scam worth several crore.
The prosecution complaint under Prevention of Money Laundering Act was filed before the Special Judge (PMLA), Ranchi against Classic Coal Construction Pvt. Ltd, Classic Multiplex Pvt Ltd and their directors Dilip Kumar Singh and Kumar Pranav in a case of bitumen scam in Jharkhand.
“The Prosecution Complaint has been filed before the Court with a prayer for confiscation of attached properties totalling to `1.83 crore apart from awarding punishment to the accused persons,” the ED said in a statement.
The attached assets include three immovable properties in the form of a commercial property and a residential property, both at Ranchi and a plot in Ramgarh,held in the name of the accused firms and the erstwhile Managing Director of the Company, Late Pawan Kumar Singh, it said.
The ED initiated investigation under PMLA on the basis of four FIRs and charge sheets filed by ACB, CBI, Ranchi under various IPC sections relating to criminal conspiracy, cheating and forgery besides provisions of Prevention of Corruption Act against the accused firms, twenty two Engineers of RCD Department of Jharkhand government and two others.
“Ignoring the mandate to procure bitumen from the government undertaking Oil companies like HPCL, IOCL, BPCL, etc., the directors of the company submitted 492 fake/forged invoices pertaining to HPCL, Ramnagar, West Bengal, to the RCD Dept. showing procurement of 4630 MT of bitumen for road works and got payment in connivance with the departmental engineers on strength of these fake/forged bills to the tune of Rs. 6.88 crores, the ED said.
Investigation under PMLA revealed that this ill-gotten money was used to create assets and to meet miscellaneous expenditure pertaining to the company and its directors. After identification of Proceeds of Crime, two Provisional Attachment Orders attaching assets worth `2.08 crores and 1.83 crores were issued.
Earlier, a Prosecution Complaint was filed and now this supplementary complaint has been filed for conducting trial against accused.