Assets Of Former IAS Officer Worth Crores Attached In Grafts Case
Enforcement Directorate took over the case after taking cognisance of FIRs filed through Gujarat CID
New Delhi:
Property price over Rs 14 crore of businesses “managed” through former Gujarat-cadre IAS officer Sanjay Gupta were hooked up below the anti-money laundering regulation, the ED stated on Wednesday.
Sanjay Gupta, a 1985-batch Indian Administrative Carrier (IAS) officer, give up the carrier in 2002 and later, began his personal hospitality trade below the title of Neesa Crew of Firms, the company stated.
That is the second one attachment order towards Sanjay Gupta because the company had frozen houses price over Rs 36.12 crore belonging to him and his circle of relatives in December final 12 months.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) case towards Sanjay Gupta relates to alleged legal misconduct and misappropriation of price range of the Metro Hyperlink Specific for Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad Corporate Restricted (MEGA). The officer was once the chairman of MEGA from April, 2011 to August, 2013.
“The hooked up houses come with a flat in Noida’s Sector 62, commercial plots in a different financial zone in Gujarat’s Dahej and the Resort Cambay at Thaltej in Ahmedabad,” the central probe company stated in a commentary.
The houses, price Rs 14.15 crore, are held within the title of Neesa Crew corporations equivalent to Neesa Recreational Restricted, Neesa Infrastructure Restricted, Euclid Structures Restricted and “owned or managed” through Sanjay Gupta, it stated.
The ED probe discovered that “Sanjay Gupta, all over his tenure as chairman, MEGA, arbitrarily appointed his shut buddies in quite a lot of authentic positions, who have been up to now running with him within the Neesa Crew”.
“He additionally floated a variety of paper or dummy corporations with those workers as administrators and were given financial institution accounts of those corporations opened all over 2012-13,” the company charged.
It alleged that fictitious corporations concerned within the case raised fabricated and bogus expenses to MEGA with none provide of products or services and products.
“Sanjay Gupta didn’t undertake any process for awarding of labor contracts in MEGA thru huge move of ads thru media or newspapers. The dummy corporations have been awarded contracts at the pretext of provide of products and services and products to MEGA and bogus expenses have been raised.
“Those bogus expenses and invoices have been qualified through the illegally-recruited MEGA officers and the bills have been in the end licensed through Sanjay Gupta as the executive and monetary powers have been vested in him,” the company stated.
The ED took over the case after taking cognisance of the FIRs and chargesheets filed through the Gujarat CID towards Sanjay Gupta and others. He was once additionally arrested through the state CID in 2015.
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