Raipur Police on Thursday registered FIR against suspended IAS officer Bl Agrawal’s CA Sunil Agrawal. The case has been registered on the complaint of Enforcement Directorate (ED), police said.
The Police has registered CA Sunil Agrawal for helping suspended IAS officer Agrawal in moving the funds from the benami bank accounts by way of investment, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) (City) Vijay Agrawal informed.
The case has been registered under section 467 and 471 of IPC with Pandri Police Station, the ASP further said.
ED had attached assets worth Rs 36.09 crore of suspended Chhattisgarh IAS Officer Bl Agrawal under the PMlA (Prevention of Money laundering Act) on April 4 this year, who allegedly laundered money through 446 benami bank accounts in the names of villagers in the Union Bank of India, Raipur.
Agrawal, an Indian Administrative Service officer then Principal Secretary (Higher Education) in the Chhattisgarh government, was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on February 21, 2017 on charges of trying to ‘settle’ a case being probed by the central agency against him, it may be recalled.