Ranchi: On Tuesday, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) summoned Jharkhand's Mining Secretary Pooja Singhal to record her statement. The Enforcement Directorate in Ranchi will question him in a money laundering case related to alleged fraud in MGNREGA funds. Enforcement Directorate officials gave this news on Monday. He said that 2000 batch IAS officer Pooja Singhal has been asked to appear before the investigating officer of the case at the regional office of the federal agency in Ranchi. Here his statement will be recorded under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
Significantly, on May 6, the investigating agency had conducted raids against Pooja Singhal, her husband Abhishek Jha and other associates in Jharkhand and some other places. Because of this, most of them were also questioned. The Enforcement Directorate has taken this action in a money laundering case in which Ram Binod Prasad Sinha, a former Junior Engineer in the Government of Jharkhand, was arrested by the agency from West Bengal on June 17, 2020.
The same Sinha was booked under criminal sections of the Indian Penal Code under criminal sections related to cheating and corruption. In this, government money was allegedly invested in his name as well as in the name of his family members while working as a junior engineer from 1 April 2008 to 21 March 2011. The agency had earlier said that these funds were allocated for government projects under MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) in Khunti district. During his interrogation, in this case, Sinha told the Enforcement Directorate that he had paid 5 per cent commission (out of fraud) to the district administration in lieu of it. Thereafter, the Enforcement Directorate started an investigation under allegations of irregularities against Pooja Singhal. It is worth noting that Pooja Singhal did Chatra between 2007 and 2013. Served as District Magistrate of Khunti and Palamu. Due to the investigation, on May 7, more than Rs 17 crore in cash was recovered from the premises of Suman Kumar, a chartered accountant of Pooja Singhal. After this Suman Kumar was also arrested. He is in the custody of the Enforcement Directorate till May 11. The Enforcement Directorate is probing Suman Kumar's relationship with Pooja Singhal and her husband.
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