Enforcement Directorate

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Delhi Police registers fresh case against NewsClick under UAPA, China funding under probe as special cell raids 30 locations.

The ED said that the accused used the reference of his friend Shiv Sena (UBT) Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut to meet additional municipal commissioner Sanjeev Jaiswal during the pandemic to discuss Worli COVID jumbo hospital tenders for Dahisar and Worli in Maharashtra.

Saurabh Chandrakar and his associate, Ravi Uppal, are among the wanted suspects in India and are believed to have created an empire worth 6,000 crores through the app.

The searches are being conducted under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002. The agency is also investigating alleged large-scale tax evasion in selling sand mined from riverbeds.

According to the ED, Naresh Goyal fraudulently diverted loan proceeds as pointed out by Ernst & Young's Forensic Audit Reports, causing the bank a loss of Rs 538.62 crore.

ED attached assets worth Rs 236 crore in Jharkhand land scam and filed second charge sheet.

PFI leader Abdul Razak Peediyakkal granted bail by the Supreme Court of India.

ED conducted raids at premises of Congress leader Bharat Bhushan Ashu and his aides in Punjab in a PMLA case

An official quoted in the Indian Express stated that the current ED raids are linked to its investigation into the banking transactions of the Mahadev online gaming application. Large transactions worth Rs 5,000 crore are said to have taken place through this application which is under scrutiny.