State Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Ok Ravi Kumar on Tuesday mentioned a “document” seizure of money, liquor and medicines price over Rs 110 crore was produced from Jharkhand within the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections.
“A staggering Rs 110.36 crore in money, medicine, liquor and different objects had been seized in Jharkhand for the reason that announcement of the Mannequin Code of Conduct for the Lok Sabha polls,” he added.
“That is the very best seizure quantity to this point in Jharkhand. In 2019, the money restoration was solely Rs 5 crore,” the official mentioned.
ED recovers over Rs 35 crore from prime official’s workers
The restoration features a money haul of round Rs 35 crore made by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday throughout raids at a number of places, together with the premises of a home assist of a secretary of Jharkhand minister Alamgir Alam.
A cache of greater than Rs 32 crore money was seized from this minister-linked location aside from Rs 3 crore that was recovered by the central company from another premises being searched within the state as a part of a cash laundering investigation linked to the state rural improvement division, the sources mentioned.
The ED has been probing this case since final 12 months and has arrested a former chief engineer of the state rural improvement division.
Movies and pictures shared by the sources confirmed officers of the company emptying wads of forex notes from giant baggage in a 2BHK flat positioned at Gadikhana Chowk.
As many as eight note-counting machines had been deployed by the company aside from financial institution workers to establish the precise quantity of forex that was majorly within the Rs 500 denomination. Personnel of central paramilitary forces stood guard on the constructing the place the flat is positioned.
It’s claimed that Jahangir Alam, a home assist of Congress chief and Jharkhand Rural Improvement Minister Alamgir Alam’s private secretary Sanjiv Lal, is residing at this location together with Lal, the sources mentioned.
The keys to the premises the place the money was discovered had been seized from Lal’s flat, they mentioned.
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