The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday filed a chargesheet against former Congress legislator Rajesh Jain and two others for allegedly laundering demonetised currency worth Rs 8 crore in 2016, PTI reported. Jain was arrested in November 2017 for allegedly making illegal transactions worth Rs 4.5 crore.
According to the investigative agency, Jain, Subhash Chandra Gupta and Satish Kumar knowingly helped Delhi-based lawyer Rajesh Tandon launder the money. Tandon paid them their fees through shell firms, the investigating agency alleged.
This is the second supplementary chargesheet the Enforcement Directorate has filed in the case against Tandon and nine others. The Delhi High Court had granted bail to the accused in May.
The Delhi Police conducted a raid at Tandon’s law firm in December 2016 and seized Rs 13.5 crore, of which Rs 2.6 crore was in new currency notes, PTI reported. According to the agency, Jain opened two firms – Jai Jinendra Sales and Sri Niwas Sales – with the help of Yogesh Mittal, another accused in the case, so that he could transfer the money from four bank accounts. Mittal deposited the demonetised currency in various bank accounts of shell companies in November 2016. He was arrested seven months later.
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