Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, August 19: The Enforcement Directorate announced on Saturday that a man has been found guilty of money laundering for smuggling narcotic drugs by a special PMLA court in Jalandhar, Punjab.
Navdeep Singh was found guilty under several sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), and the court sentenced him to 3.5 years of rigorous imprisonment as well as a fine of Rs. 50,000.
The court handed down the sentence on August 17 and added that the accused will face further rigorous imprisonment for three months if the fine was not paid, according to a statement from the central agency.
The accused’s assets worth Rs 9 lakh that had already been seized by the ED were also allowed to be forfeited by the court.
The money laundering case is related to a 2017 Punjab Police FIR against the accused and others that was filed under several sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
The ED said that Navdeep Singh, Sarabjit Singh, and Pal Singh (now deceased) used to “smuggle” heroin with the help of Rupinder Singh, also known by the alias Rob Sidhu, a Canadian citizen, according to the police investigation.
