RAJ KUMAR
Ranchi, April 3: Money laundering accused Sanjay Kumar Tiwari surrendered before the Prevention of Money Laundering Act Court in Ranchi.
It was getting 8.30 am when Tiwari surrendered after which the court sent him in judicial custody for 14 days.
The development took place after the ED procured an arrest warrant against Tiwari on Friday after he did not surrender before the court on March 25 following the end of his period of the provisional bail granted by the Supreme Court taking the pretext of Covid-19 with the help of a fake certificate procured from Rajendra Institute of Medical Science.
Before Tiwari surrendered, the Jharkhand police arrested those two persons including a RIMS microbiology department data operator who helped Tiwari by providing a fake Covid 19 certificate.
Sanjay Tiwari is the director of Bhanu Construction. About Rs 100 crores of mid-day meal was illegally transferred from the SBI Dhurwa branch to 34 accounts of Bhanu Construction.
First an FIR was lodged at Dhurwa police station regarding this. Later, the CBI took over the investigation of the case. In the year 2021, ED registered the case number ECIR 3/2021 and took the case under its control. Along with Sanjay Tiwari, Raju Verma and Suresh Kumar are also accused in this case.
