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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a prosecution ailment against 14 people, including erstwhile Delhi Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) person Satyendar Kumar Jain, successful transportation with an alleged corruption lawsuit involving the grant of 4 tenders related to sewage attraction plants (STPs) of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB).
On December 4, successful the aforesaid case, the bureau attached assets worthy Rs. 15.36 crore of assorted persons.
Among those named included the past DJB main enforcement serviceman Udit Prakash Rai, erstwhile subordinate Ajay Gupta, the past DJB main technologist Satish Chandra Vashishth, and different backstage persons/entities. The bureau has invoked assorted provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) successful the case.
The ED had initiated investigations based connected an FIR registered by the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) of Delhi authorities against Euroteck Environmental Private Limited (EEPL) and others, alleging a scam successful the DJB successful the sanction of augmentation and upgradation of existing 10 STPs astatine Pappankalan and Nilothi (Package 1), Najafgarh and Keshopur (Package 2), Coronation Pillar, Narela and Rohini (Package 3), and Kondli (Package 4).
“It is revealed that Rajakumar Kurra, managing manager of EEPL, got the presumption and conditions of the DJB tender manipulated done officials of DJB and backstage persons, Nagendra Yadav and others, making the tender restrictive to the usage of ‘IFAS exertion with fixed media’ lone and thereby, enabling EEPL to go the sole supplier of exertion successful the said tender,” said the agency.
As alleged, Mr. Kurra and his associates paid amerciable commission/bribe of ₹6.73 crore done banking channels/cash. The ED alleged that Mr. Jain and others were progressive successful oregon assisted successful the generation, acquisition, concealment, possession and usage of full proceeds of transgression to the tune of ₹17.70 crore.
‘Vindictive politics’
Reacting to the development, AAP said the Central and the Delhi governments are engaged successful vindictive politics. “The lone enactment they are acrophobic of is AAP contempt the information that each the erstwhile cases filed by the ED, the CBI and the ACB person fallen level successful courts,” said a elder enactment leader.
