Authorities claimed on Tuesday that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had taken Rs 1.40 crore from multiple Ankit India Limited offices. Ankit India Limited is a food processing company situated in Kolkata. The two-day raid on November 4 and 5 resulted in the seizure in relation to the ration distribution scheme. The investigation team carried out the operation after Jyotipriya Mallick, the former minister of food, was taken into custody on October 26.
According to sources who spoke with India Today, during the raid, about Rs 1 crore was found and taken from the company’s corporate headquarters, while an additional Rs 40 lakh was taken from other offices.
Throughout the operation, the investigative agency also obtained a number of incriminating documents. The ED is reportedly planning to interrogate a number of corporate officers and directors in the near future in an effort to determine where this enormous sum of money came from.
Additionally, two partnership firms headquartered in the Bankura district were found as a result of the investigative agency’s investigation: M/s. AJ Agrotech and AJ Royal Private Limited. The ED questioned businessman CP Jena, a partner in these enterprises.
Jena stated during the interrogation that the businesses were founded by a powerful person with the goal of laundering illicit funds obtained from the ration scam. According to authorities, these businesses served mostly as shells, established with the intention of turning dirty money into legal funds.
The ED froze more than Rs 16.8 crore from the bank accounts of the two entities after this finding.
In the initial court appearance after Mallick’s arrest, the Enforcement Directorate had brought up the fact that the scheme encompassed multiple shell businesses.
The agency’s attorney stated that many of these businesses were being investigated by the ED and that these corporations were established to transform millions of dollars in black money obtained through wrongdoing.
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