Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Jan 13: In connection with the Chhattisgarh coal scam, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) is conducting raids at various places in Raipur and Bilaspur.
Agni Chandrakar, a former Mahasamund MLA and current chairman of the State Seed Corporation, is the target of a raid at his home. Additionally, raids are being undertaken at the homes of Swatantra Jain, a businessman, and ISP Anbalagan in Raipur. A team from ED also visited the homes of a businessman in Bilaspur and a transporter in Raipur named Vipul Patel.
The former MLA Agni Chandrakar’s son-in-law, Suryakant Tiwari, was imprisoned in the money laundering case. In addition, businessmen Laxmikant Tiwari and Nikhil Chandrakar, as well as IAS Sameer Vishnoi and Saumya Chaurasia, are all currently incarcerated in connection with a money laundering case related to a fictitious coal levy scheme.
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A cartel made up of prominent bureaucrats, businesspeople, politicians, and middlemen were extorting an illegal fee of Rs 25 per tonne for each tonne of coal moved in the state.
Earlier in October 2022,ED recovered Rs 4 crore cash, valuables worth crores, and important documents after conducting raids on 40 locations linked to the top bureaucrats, politicians, and businessmen of Chhattisgarh.
