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The Enforcement Directorate(ED) has entered the Tirumala laddu ghee adulteration case, amid increasing indications of bribes allegedly paid to definite individuals done hawala transactions. According to sources, the ED has registered a lawsuit and initiated a probe nether the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
Earlier, a Special Investigation Team headed by the Central Bureau of Investigation, constituted nether the directions of the Supreme Court, investigated the ghee adulteration lawsuit and submitted its study to a tribunal successful Nellore. The study reportedly pointed to hawala transactions allegedly utilized arsenic bribes by backstage dairies to definite mediators progressive successful securing support for ghee procurement orders.
During the probe, officials seized mobile phones belonging to suspects and are said to person established a wealth way flowing into definite slope accounts. This wealth way allegedly had a nonstop bearing connected ineligible dairies securing ghee proviso contracts by submitting forged documents and acquisition certificates to bolster their credentials. The SIT besides reportedly recovered that fake inspection reports were generated successful the names of outer dairy experts.
Given the SIT’s findings connected hawala transactions, the introduction of the Enforcement Directorate was wide expected.
