RAJ KUMAR
Ranchi, April 21: The ED has filed a Prosecution Complaint (PC) (equivalent to a chargesheet) in the money laundering case involving the suspended Chief Engineer of the Rural Development Department, Veerendra Ram, who is in jail.
On Friday, the Ranchi ED team filed the PC in the residential office of the Special Court of PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act) judge. In the PC filed by ED, apart from Ram, information has also been given about people who earn illegal money by managing tenders. Along with this, information about who got how much share and who played what role has also been given.
The ED has already attached Ram’s properties over Rs 34 crore.
The ED in its PC mentioned that Ram used to take commission for awarding tenders. The probe agency has mentioned that Rs 9.30 crore was deposited from various sources in the joint bank account of Veerendra Kumar Ram and his wife Rajkumari Devi between 2014-15 to 2018-19.
Apart from this, the PC mentions, between December 21, 2022 and January 23, 2023, Rs 4.5 crore has been deposited in the account of Ram’s father Genda Ram. All these amounts were transferred from the accounts of the employees and relatives of Ram’s chartered accountants (CA) Mukesh and Mohit Mittal.
The ED mentioned that during the investigation it found that Rs 5.70 crore and Rs 3.59 crore were deposited in the joint account of Veerendra Ram and his wife Rajkumari Devi in Canara Bank from the bank accounts of two companies RK Investment and Consultancy and RP Investment and Consultancy. The directors of these companies, the PC mentions, are Rakesh Kumar Kedia and Reena Pal, and their account was being operated by CA Mukesh Mittal.
On February 22, the ED had arrested Ram. A day before this, the ED had raided his 24 locations. During the raid, the ED recovered documents related to investment of crores in many cities of the country including jewellery worth about one and a half crores. In this case, ED has also arrested Alok Ranjan, a relative of Veerendra Ram.
