The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has conducted raids at 21 locations in Jharkhand in connection with money laundering in the Ayushman Bharat scheme.
During an ED probe, it came to light that contractors paid exorbitant commissions ranging from 25 to 40 per cent of the contract value to officials and political figures in the state.
The AAP further alleged the BJP was using the ED and CBI as "political weapons" to intimidate opposition leaders, and to hinder the success of the INDIA alliance.
The ED on Friday said that three immovable properties located in the national capital worth Rs 24.95 crore, belonging to Hero MotoCorp executive chairperson Pawan Kant Munjal have been provisionally attached under the provisions of the PMLA.
The ED started an investigation under PMLA, 2002 based on FIR registered by the CBI against the Ex-Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav, Rabri Devi and others.
The apex court made it clear that no application for any further extension would be entertained and he will cease to be ED director from midnight of September 15-16.
Sibal will continue his arguments on next Tuesday (August 1) and not August 2 as written in the last line. Error is regretted.
Of the total of 14 municipalities that have come under the scanner of the central agency sleuths in this connection, authorities of six have informed the probe officials that crucial recruitment-related documents, including the OMR sheets, have gone missing.
Apart from Sahu, the ED team searched the premises belonging to state Congress leader Ram Gopal Agarwal.
Now after a year of its first major operation, questions galore on the fate of Rs 49.80 crore seized mainly in Rs 2,000 notes in addition to gold worth Rs 5.08 crore seized by the ED sleuths from the two residences of Mukherjee.
