NEW DELHI: On Thursday, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain's detention by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) was extended for another five days. He's being investigated for money laundering.
The Enforcement Directorate had requested that Jain's remand be extended for another five days, thus he was brought before the Rouse Avenue Court by ED personnel. "We recovered a number of items during the raid and will have to confront him with the persons whose homes were seized," the ED officer stated.
After hearing the arguments, the judge granted the ED's request and extended Jain's detention for another five days. Multiple places belonging to Jain and his known persons, including relatives, were questioend lately by the Enforcement Directorate. A total of Rs 2.85 crore in cash and 133 gold coins weighing 1.80 kilogramme were recovered.
On June 6, the ED conducted a search operation at the homes of Jain, his wife, and accomplices who had either directly or indirectly aided him or participated in money laundering procedures, ED said.
"We conducted raids at the premises of Ankush Jain, Vaibhav Jain, Naveen Jain, and Siddharth Jain, Directors of Ram Prakash Jewellers Pvt Ltd, G.S. Matharoo, Chairman of Lala Sher Singh Jivan Vigyan Trust, which runs Prudence Group of Schools, Yogesh Kumar Jain, Director of Ram Prakash Jewellers Pvt Ltd, father-in-law of Ankush, the ED official had said.
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