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The Gujarat Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has registered an FIR against Surendranagar ex-collector Rajendrakumar Patel and 3 others connected a ailment by the Enforcement Directorate successful transportation with a bribery-linked wealth laundering probe, an authoritative said connected Thursday (December 25, 2025).
Patel, a 2015-batch IAS serviceman serving arsenic the collector of Surendranagar district, was transferred without posting connected Wednesday pursuing the apprehension of Chandrasinh Mori from his bureau by the ED successful a wealth laundering lawsuit stemming from bribery.
“Based connected a ailment by the ED, we registered an FIR against Patel, his idiosyncratic adjunct Jayrajsinh Jhala, clerk Mayursinh Gohil, and lawman mamlatdar Chandrasinh Mori connected December 23 nether the Prevention of Corruption Act,” said ACB’s Joint Director Makrand Chauhan.
No 1 has been arrested yet, helium said.
On December 23, an ED squad conducted searches and arrested lawman mamlatdar (revenue officer) Chandrasinh Mori, posted astatine the Surendranagar territory collector's office, aft recovering ₹67.5 lakh from his location for his alleged relation successful a bribery-linked wealth laundering case.
He was produced earlier a peculiar PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act) tribunal present connected Wednesday, which remanded him successful ED custody till January 1.
The ED claimed Mori admitted that “the seized currency represents bribe wealth demanded and collected by him, straight and done intermediaries, from applicants seeking expedited oregon favourable processing of statutory land-use application”.
The bureau is investigating alleged wealth laundering involving Mori and others, pursuing the registration of an Enforcement Case Information Report nether the PMLA.
The remand exertion besides said that the Gujarat ACB had registered a abstracted FIR against Mori and others.
The probe revealed a “large-scale corruption and procreation of proceeds of transgression done systematic extortion, demand, and postulation of amerciable gratification by nationalist servants successful Surendranagar collector's office”, the remand exertion said.
As lawman mamlatdar, Mori was entrusted with the rubric verification and processing of CLU (change of onshore use) applications nether the Saurashtra Gharkhed Tenancy Settlement and Agricultural Lands Ordinance, 1949.
Mori allegedly misused his presumption and collected bribes from applicants for speedy support of applications. The bribe magnitude was calculated connected a quadrate metre basis, the ED added.
