Economic Offence Wing (EOW) has registered an FIR against former principal secretary to chief minister Aman Singh, and his wife Yasmin Singh for allegedly accumulating disproportionate assets against their known income sources, sources said here on Wednesday.
According to a press release from EOW, Aman Singh and his wife Yasmin Singh were booked under sections of Prevention of Corruption Act and 120 (B). The FIR was filed on the complaint of a Raipur-based RTI activist.
“Aman Singh and his wife had amassed disproportionate assets in different cities like Raipur, Bhopal, Delhi and also in foreign nations which we are investigating,” the press release mentioned.
The release further claimed that Singh has formed shell companies which were engaged in money laundering. “ It was found that shell companies –Vyas Mines and Minerals, Samay Multi Trade, Shrishti Natural Resources , YN Singh Memorial Foundation and Kargil India Limited – was made by them and crores of money laundering was done,” the release said adding that Singh was himself a promoter of YN Singh memorial foundation even though he was a government employee.
Meanwhile, reacting over the action, Aman Singh termed it ‘political witch-hunting’. In a statement he said “I have learnt that the state (Chhattisgarh) has lodged an FIR against me and my family. But I have applied for a copy but it has not been provided to me. Therefore, I am not aware of its contents. The FIR has clearly been done at the behest of the Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and only to harass my family and to subvert the judicial process in the midst of the High Court’s hearing on my petition in which I had challenged the mala fide and malicious EOW enquiry on a false and frivolous complaint.”
The least the state could have done was to wait for honourable High Court’s decision, he said.
“The present political dispensation is doing everything it can to falsely implicate me and my family, and I have petitioned the High Court to defend my fundamental rights,” said Singh, who served as principal secretary to erstwhile chief minister Raman Singh.