Who is Ankit Tiwari? ED officer nabbed by Tamil Nadu police for accepting ₹20 lakhs bribe

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Enforcement Directorate (ED) officer, accusing him of being caught “red-handed" accepting a bribe of ₹20 lakh from a doctor in Dindigul district. As per an official release, authorities noted that Ankit Tiwari and his ED officers team had allegedly been intimidating multiple individuals, demanding bribes under the pretext of settling cases within the Enforcement Directorate.

“Investigation is being done to elucidate whether he had blackmailed/threatened any other officials adopting this modus operandi and collected crores of money in the name of the Enforcement Directorate," said Tamil Nadu DVAC in an official release. Also Read: Rajasthan Anti-Corruption Bureau arrests ED official, associate for accepting ₹15 lakh bribe Who is Ankit Tiwari? Ankit Tiwari, a member of the 2016 batch of officers, has a background of prior service in the states of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh.

As per an official statement released by DVAC Chennai, Tiwari currently holds the position of an enforcement officer within the Madurai Enforcement Department office under the Union government. “On October 29, 2023, he contacted a government employee from Dindigul and mentioned a case registered against him in the Dindigul Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Department, which was already disposed of," the DVAC said in its release.

Also Read: Miscreants loot ₹3.2 crore posing as ED officers in Delhi's Baba Haridas Nagar, 1 arrested Moreover, Ankit Tiwari conveyed to the government employee that directives had been issued from the Prime Minister's Office to initiate an investigation through the Enforcement Department in this matter. He directed the government official to present themselves at the Enforcement Directorate office in Madurai on October 30, 2023.