Team News Riveting
Raipur, October 14
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had seized cash, gold and bullion worth Rs 6.5 crore during the operation conducted in Chhattisgarh.
Three days ago, the ED had conducted searches at over a dozen locations in Chhattisgarh including the premises of three Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers and businessmen engaged in coal trade. On Thursday, the central agency arrested the 2009-batch IAS officer, Sameer Vishnoi, who had worked as Mining Director in Chhattisgarh.
Besides the IAS officer, businessman Sunil Agrawal of the Indramani group and Laxmikant Tiwari, uncle of “absconding” businessman Suryakant Tiwari, have also been taken into custody in the morning by the federal agency from state capital Raipur, they said. All the three have been remanded to ED custody for eight days on Thursday by a special court.
“ED has conducted search operations and seized approx Rs 6.5 Crore in the form of unaccounted cash, gold & bullion, etc. Special Court, PMLA, Raipur has granted Custody of 3 persons (including 1 IAS officer) arrested by ED for 8 days till 21.10.2022 under PMLA in a coal scam case,” the economic intelligence agency said in a tweet today. Of it, four kg gold and Rs 47 lakh cash was reportedly recovered from the house of Vishnoi.
Meanwhile, the ED officials today reached the residence of a district collector and interrogated her in connection with the case.
