Probe Agency Files Complaint Against Brajesh Thakur Under Money Laundering Act

Court enforced a fine of Rs 32.20 lakh on Brajesh Thakur in shelter house case. (File)

Patna:

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday submitted a prosecution grievance under Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 versus Brajesh Thakur, who is going through life sentence in Muzaffarpur shelter house sexual attack case, and his relative and others at PMLA unique court.

The ED made a prayer prior to a Special Judge (PMLA), Patna for granting penalty to Thakur for devoting an offense of cash laundering and confiscation of the connected properties worth Rs 8.3 crore in the type of stationary and movable residential or commercial properties in his name and in the name of his relative and others.

Thakur is presently serving life sentence after a Delhi court in February, 2020 sentenced him “strenuous jail time till the rest of his life” and enforced a fine of Rs 32.20 lakh on him in shelter house case.

The matter had actually emerged on May 26, 2018 after Tata Institute of Social Sciences sent a report to the Bihar federal government highlighting the supposed sexual assault of women in the shelter house for the very first time.

The ED started an examination under the arrangements of PMLA on the basis of 2 FIRs lodged by Mahila Police Station, Muzaffarpur and one FIR was lodged by CBI, SCB, Patna versus Brajesh Thakur and others under different areas of IPC for abusing the funds and grant-in-aid got from the state federal government and other firms in the name of NGO Sewa Sankalp Ewam Vikas Samiti and its sis NGOs.

Thakur in connivance with others abused the fund/grant-in-aid to the tune of Rs 7.57 crore and invested the exact same in his own name along with in the name of his relative – Kumari Asha, Rahul Anand, Manorama Devi and others for getting big movable and stationary residential or commercial properties consisting of payment of costs for his more youthful child Mehul Anand’s medical education.

Brajesh Thakur and others diverted/siphoned off the funds/grant-in-aid gotten for the well-being of woman kids and others and utilized the funds for his individual gain by getting big movable and stationary residential or commercial properties in his name and in the name of his relative, ED stated in its grievance.

Accordingly, 2 provisionary accessory orders were provided according to which residential or commercial properties worth Rs 7.3 crore were provisionally connected and verified while another provisionary accessory order was provided for a quantity of Rs 1.47 crore.

Accordingly, prosecution grievance prior to the Special Court for the PMLA, Patna has actually been submitted.

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