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Chhattisgarh coal scam proceeds of crime ₹540crore: ED | India News

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NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate has told the Supreme Court that an illegal coal syndicate operating in Chhattisgarh in association with senior bureaucrats and with full support of the state machinery has generated proceeds of crime worth Rs 540 crore.
“The syndicate consisted of private individuals like Suryakant Tiwari and government functionaries like Saumya Chaurasia, Sameer Vishnoi, IAS, mining officers, and (operating) with the backing of higher political powers, they managed to do deliberate policy changes,” it said in an affidavit.
Chaurasia was CM Bhupesh Baghel’s deputy secretary and was arrested by ED along with IAS officer Sameer Vishnoi and businessman Sunil Agrawal under PMLA.
ED said that it has so far attached proceeds of crime of Rs 221 crore.


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