Police have additionally filed 25 chargesheets in at the least 12 instances, the probe company mentioned. (Representational)
New Delhi:
The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday mentioned it has filed a chargesheet in opposition to Indian International Service officer Neeharika Singh, her husband, and his corporations as a part of an alleged funding fraud linked cash laundering case.
A particular court docket in Lucknow has taken cognisance of the prosecution grievance (chargesheet) on November 25. It was filed on September 2, the company mentioned in an announcement.
The IFS officer, her husband Ajit Kumar Gupta, Anee Bullion and Industries Pvt. Ltd., Anee Commodity Brokers Pvt. Ltd., and Anee Securities Pvt. Ltd. have been named as accused within the chargesheet filed below numerous sections of the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA).
Singh was questioned by the ED on this case and she or he was final acknowledged to have been posted with the Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA) in Delhi.
The cash laundering investigation started in 2019 after the ED took cognisance of 33 FIRs registered by the Uttar Pradesh Police in opposition to Gupta and numerous different individuals/entities, for “dishonest and fraud” value Rs 110 crore by “luring” numerous folks to spend money on “fraudulent” schemes with the intention to defraud them between 21.02.2020 to 26.10.2020, in keeping with the ED.
Police have additionally filed 25 chargesheets in at the least 12 instances, it mentioned.
Gupta, the company alleged, in connivance together with his different associates collected big cash from gullible traders by floating “fraudulent” schemes like day by day deposit schemes, month-to-month recurring deposit schemes, and stuck schemes by way of his proprietorship concern Anee Bullion Dealer with a promise of “exorbitant” price of returns at 40 per cent every year, which they “failed” to return.
Later, he began accumulating cash from traders by utilizing the account of Eye Imaginative and prescient Credit score Co-operative Society Ltd. by way of his shut associates who have been the workplace bearers of the mentioned society within the identify of recent return-linked funding schemes, the probe discovered.
These investments have been “by no means returned” and harmless folks have been cheated to the tune of Rs 60 crore, the ED alleged.
“The proceeds of crime generated by Ajit Gupta by luring the gullible traders was additional layered by way of numerous corporations of Anee Group and was used for buy of varied immovable properties like home, agriculture land and so forth. for himself and within the identify of his IFS spouse Neeharika Singh and others,” it mentioned.
Property value greater than Rs 9 crore have been connected by the ED on this case earlier.
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