VIJAY DEO JHA
Ranchi, May 18: Ranchi based businessman Binay Sarawgi recorded his statement before the Enforcement Directorate in the money laundering case against builder Gyan Prakash Sarawgi.
Gyan Prakash Sarawgi was arrested by the ED in a bank fraud case on March 29 this year. The ED booked him for embezzling government money worth over Rs 31.24 crores. The financial crime fighting agency is investigating the case based on three FIRs lodged against him by the CBI in 2018-19.
Binay Sarawgi is the director of the Swastik Groups. But as he arrived at the ED office on Airport Road on Wednesday afternoon, it fuelled the speculation that the ED has summoned him in the money laundering case against Pooja Singhal.
However, Binay denied that he was called in the case related to Pooja Singhal. “I have no connection within the ongoing case against the IAS. I was called in the Gyan Prakash Sarawgi case. I am also the chairperson of the Jain Society and in the capacity of the chairperson, I had given a part of the land of the society to him for conversion. He had also paid some amounts but he could not execute the conversion,” he said.
He further informed that in the connection the ED had recorded his statement. “The ED required some clarifications in my statement that’s why officials called me. I stayed here for half an hour and returned after completing formalities,” he said.
