VIJAY DEO JHA
Ranchi, July 6: Ravi Kejriwal has turned the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) ammo against CM Hemant Soren. The ED is said to be banking upon the disclosures made by Ravi Kejriwal that may go against Chief Minister Hemant Soren. The statement of Ravi Kejriwal is said to be part of the detailed sealed cover report that the ED submitted to the Jharkhand High Court during the course of the hearing of PIL 4290/2021.
In his statement running over seven to eight pages given before the ED, Ravi Kejriwal is learnt to have confessed that he looked after the business and financial matters of the Hemant Soren family. He has accepted his involvement in running and managing some of the shell companies and the same were used to accommodate and launder unaccounted monies.
Besides, the ED has attached a report of its findings about the alleged connection of CM Hemant Soren with some shell companies. The ED in the sealed report is said to have disclosed how and when Ravi Kejriwal used the shell companies to park and launder unaccounted monies.
Sources aware of the investigation claimed that Ravi Kejriwal disclosed details of some of the financial transactions made through shell companies. The petitioner Shiv Shankar Sharma has alleged the CM and his associates of amassing disproportionate assets and parking monies in various shell companies.
However, senior Supreme Court lawyers Kapil Sibal and Mukul Rohatgi who have been appearing for the state government and Hemant Soren respectively challenged and said that the court should not rely upon the sealed report of the ED and that respondents should be provided with a copy of that sealed report.
The sealed report of the ED has made references to four companies Destination Nirman Private Limited (Est. 24 June 2008), Gayatri Commotrade Pvt Ltd (Est. January 11, 2010), Shivmangal Vinimay Pvt Ltd (Est. 11 July 2007), and Vasundhara Vincom Pvt Ltd which was set-up on September 3, 2008. All these companies have the same address having registered office 17, Ganesh Chandra Avenue, 3rd Floor, Room 303, Kolkata.
Close to the Soren family, Ravi Kejriwal was once considered the right hand of Hemant Soren. He served as the treasurer of the JMM. But he fell out of the good books of CM Hemant Soren who expelled him from the party. Later on, an FIR was lodged against him for destabilizing the Hemant Soren government.
