Congress’ Poraiyahat MLA Pradeep Yadav on Wednesday evening reached the ED office at Hinoo in connection with a money laundering case. The four times MLA reached the ED office after the Central probe agency summoned him following raids at 12 places. At the time of filing of this report the ED officials are questioning him regarding his property and investment besides involvement in money laundering if any.
An ED source informed that it was getting to 5 pm when the legislator reached the office. Sources said that ED will question Yadav about his properties and source of income.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday conducted raids on the premises of Congress MLA Pradeep Yadav and his associates across Jharkhand in connection with a money laundering case.
Several teams of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted raids at 12 places in Jharkhand capital including the locations of Congress’ Poraiyahat MLA Pradeep Yadav, at Deoghar and other places in State. The raids were conducted at 12 locations across Jharkhand, including four in Ranchi and eight in Deoghar and surrounding areas.
“ED is investigating the case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. The case is related to income tax actions on Pradeep Yadav and others. Income Tax department had conducted raids a few months ago,” informed sources. Already Yadav is on IT radar for tax evasion.
In the raid, the ED got information about investment in movable and immovable properties besides some cash. The ED will now verify the related documents. In the raids conducted in Ranchi, raids were also conducted at the office of M/s Vaishnavi Construction and Supplier Pvt Ltd at Montessori Road HEC Colony, near the bus stand in Dhurva.
It is reported that Suchitra Devi is also an associate in this company, who is said to be the wife of a former MLA from Goh in Aurangabad district of Bihar. The second place in Ranchi is of Shiv Kumar. Shiv Kumar has been an Engineer in Ranchi for 15 years. He has a residence at Arvind Marg Krishna Nagar near the firing range in Bariatu.
This raid of ED has been done on the basis of inputs received in the raid of the Income Tax Department in the past. In this case, the ED has registered a new ECIR, in which ED’s investigation is going on. At that time, two lakh rupees were recovered from the place of MLA Pradeep Yadav, Rs 40 lakh from his close Godda hotelier Shyamakant Yadav, nine lakh rupees from Vinod Kumar Lal of Dumka during the Income Tax raid.
Sources said that the raids and searches were in connection with an alleged tax evasion probe against groups in coal trading and transportation, execution of civil contracts, extraction of iron ore and production of sponge iron in Jharkhand.