Bank statements of TN minister Senthil Balaji, wife show huge cash deposits: ED
Tamil Nadu minister V Senthil Balaji and his wife shows they received «huge cash deposits», the ED said Thursday, days after filing a chargesheet against the DMK leader in a money laundering investigation linked to the alleged 'cash for jobs scam' in the transport department. The prosecution complaint, filed under various sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), was submitted by the central agency on August 12 before a special court in Chennai and it took cognisance of the chargesheet on Wednesday, it said in a statement.
The about 3,000-page chargesheet includes more than 2,000 pages of annexures and 168-170 pages of operational documents. The agency alleged that Balaji, 47, «abused» his official position as the transport minister of Tamil Nadu (during the previous AIADMK regime) along with his brother RV Ashok Kumar and personal assistants B Shanmugam and M Karthikeyan and «entered into a criminal conspiracy» with the then managing directors of state transport undertakings (STUs) and other officers of transport corporations.
It claimed the accused obtained «illegal gratification» from candidates to recruit them as drivers, conductors, junior tradesmen, junior assistants, junior engineer and assistant engineer in the transport corporations. «During ED investigation, the bank statement analysis revealed that there were huge cash deposits in the bank accounts of accused V Senthil Balaji and his wife S Megala.» «ED has collected incriminating evidences indicating the utilisation of proceeds of crime and establishing the nexus and modus operandi of the 'cash for jobs scam',» the ED alleged.
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