NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials left astonished after they detected cash deposits totalling over Rs 104 crore in an account belonging to the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).
ED also finds Rs 1.43 crore in an account belonging to party Supremo Mayawati’s brother Anand in a branch of United Bank of India (UBI) in New Delhi, said sources in the Enforcement Directorate on Monday.
Officials said the agency, ED as part of its routine survey and enquiry operations to check suspicious and huge cash deposits in banks, visited the Karol Bagh branch of the UBI on Monday and found huge deposits made in these two accounts post-demonetisation.
They said the sleuths called for the records of the deposits made in the BSP account and found that while Rs 102 crore was deposited in Rs 1,000 notes, the rest Rs 3 crore was deposited in the old Rs 5,00 notes.
The ED has sought full details about the two accounts from the bank even as it is understood that the agency will write to the income tax department which has the powers to go into the legality of donations and contributions made to political parties.
The ED has also asked the bank to provide to it CCTV footage and KYC documents used to open the accounts, they said. So far, no response came from BSP on the issue.