New Delhi:
Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh on Wednesday criticized the Bharatiya Janata Party for ED’s arrest of Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain in a money laundering case, saying it was a “false, baseless case”.
“The party whose national president was caught on camera taking bribes, which has committed scams with the coffins of martyrs, has committed scams in Rafale, they are preaching to us. It is as if Gabbar Singh is giving a peace speech,” claimed Mr. Singh. here’s a press conference.
The AAP MP expressed confidence that Satyendra Jain will get out of the case.
He claimed that “nothing was found” in the CBI’s investigation against Jain, but ED has made the arrest as Himachal Pradesh heads to the polls this year. Mr. Jain is the AAP head of Himachal Pradesh.
“Does the ED office drive from the BJP office?” asked Mr. Singh.
On May 30, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Delhi Health and Home Affairs Minister Satyendar Jain in connection with alleged hawala transactions involving a Kolkata-based company. Mr Jain was arrested after a special ED team raided his home in Delhi.
On August 25, 2017, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed an FIR against Mr. Jain in a money laundering case.
The ED had filed a criminal case against the AAP leader on the basis of this FIR alleging that Mr. Jain could not explain the source of the funds he received from four companies in which he was a shareholder.
Mr Jain had allegedly marketed or bought several shell companies in Delhi. He is also alleged to have laundered black money worth Rs 16.39 crore through 54 empty businesses of three Kolkata hawala operators.
Mr. Jain reportedly owned a large number of shares in companies named Prayas, Indo and Akinchan. However, after he became a minister in Kejriwal’s government, all his shares were transferred to his wife in 2015, according to reports.
These companies used to transfer cash payments to their counterparts in Kolkata and these companies would later, under the pretense of buying shares, “send the money back” to Jain using legal means. The companies reportedly laundered money amounting to Rs 16.39 crores to Satyendra Jain between 2010 and 2014.
According to government sources, when he was prosecuted by the IT department, Mr. Jain surrendered black money in the form of cash of Rs 16.39 crore under Income Disclosure Scheme (IDS) 2016 on benami names of Vaibhav Jain and Ankush Jain .
In November 2019, the Ministry of Interior approved the prosecution of Mr. Jain in cases related to disproportionate assets and money laundering.
Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections are scheduled for later this year.
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