ED seizes Rs 30 lakh in cash from Jharkhand Finance Minister's residence

Ranchi: The ED, which is conducting simultaneous raids at 36 locations in connection with the liquor and land scam in Jharkhand, has recovered about Rs 30 lakh in cash from the Ranchi residence of State Finance Minister Dr. Rameshwar Uraon. The ED has received information that Rohit Uraon, son of the Finance Minister, had invested money in the liquor syndicate business. The ED team has recovered jewelery worth crores of rupees from the house of Vinay Singh, owner of Nexgen, a showroom of vehicles in Ranchi. The recovered jewelery is being appraised.

In the case of money laundering through liquor and land business, ED teams from this morning, biggest liquor baron Yogendra Tiwari, former BJP MLA from Giridih Nirbhay Shahabadi, BJP leader from Deoghar Abhishek Jha, Congress leader Munnam Sanjay, Ranchi businessman Shravan Jalan, Aarti Rai Chowdhary, Vaibhav Shahabadi, Amarnath Tekriwal and many others are raiding three dozen targets in the cities of Ranchi, Deoghar, Kolkata, Godda, Dhanbad, Dumka, Jamtara etc. Meanwhile, the ED has asked liquor baron Yogendra Tiwari and his brother Amarendra Tiwari to appear at the ED's Ranchi zonal office on August 26 for questioning.

Let us inform that in the month of March, Income Tax was also raided at the premises of liquor baron Yogendra Tiwari. During this, it was revealed that he has acquired undisclosed assets of more than 15 crores. The Income Tax Department issued summons and ordered Yogendra Tiwari to appear for questioning on March 27. Based on the documents found during the survey, Santosh Mandal, director of the liquor baron's company, had accepted that he had acquired assets worth more than Rs 15 crore.

The Income Tax Department is believed to have shared this information with the ED. After this this action is being taken. The involvement of Chhattisgarh's syndicate in the liquor scam in Jharkhand has also come to the fore. ED investigation of liquor scam is already going on in Chhattisgarh. In Jharkhand also, the government had appointed a government company of Chhattisgarh as a consultant in the liquor business.

The investigating agency believes that on the lines of Chhattisgarh, large-scale irregularities have taken place in the liquor business. Regarding this, the Chhattisgarh unit of ED has questioned two IAS of Jharkhand a few months ago. A month ago, the ED had filed an FIR against a Noida-based company in connection with the supply of fake holograms of liquor. It is mentioned in that FIR that the company supplied fake holograms in Jharkhand as well.