ED: Cash seized from Ranchi flat pertains to minister Alamgir Alam
cash seized from the Ranchi-based premise of the domestic help of a secretary of Jharkhand minister Alamgir Alam «pertains» to the lawmaker and he enjoyed a fixed commission of 1.5 per cent from every tender executed in his department, the ED alleged on Thursday. The federal agency made this claim as it produced the 74-year-old Alam, a Congress leader from Pakur, before the court of special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) Prabhat Kumar Sharma.
He was arrested on Wednesday by the agency here. The court sent him to six days of ED custody.
The ED had raided Alam's personal secretary Sanjeev Kumar Lal and his domestic help Jahangir Alam on May 6 and recovered a total Rs 32.2 crore from a flat in the name of the latter person. The total cash seizure in this case is Rs 37.5 crore.
«It is ascertained that the said seized cash of Rs 32.2 crore, which was found seized from the flat in the name of Jahangir Alam...pertains to Alamgir Alam and same was collected by Jahangir Alam at the instruction of Sanjeev Kumar Lal who in turn was doing so on behalf of Alamgir Alam,» the ED told the court while seeking the minister's remand.
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