Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain has been remanded in Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody till June 9. During a court hearing, the Special judge Geetanjali Goel remanded Jain in ED’s custody, noting that his custodial interrogation was required to unearth the larger conspiracy. He has been arrested in the money laundering case. The case was based on 2017 CBI investigation, alleging Jain and his wife of disproportionate assets worth crores.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday arrested Jain in connection with an alleged hawala transaction related to a Kolkata-based company. The ED filed a money laundering case against the AAP minister based on an FIR filed by the CBI in August 2017 against him and others on charges of alleged possession of disproportionate assets.
Meanwhile, Mr. Arvind Kejriwal, the Chief Minister of Delhi said, “It’s a false case against Satyendar Jain. We are hard-core patriots, who can get beheaded but can never betray the country…I myself saw his papers, and the allegations against him are false. He has been arrested in view of politics.”
Defending Jain and accusing the central probe agencies of falsely implicating the minister, Mr. Arvind Kejriwal added, “Similarly, five years ago, I had also removed a minister in Delhi. We don’t wait for agencies to take action. However, agencies also act in the wrong ways. But the actions that have been taken by central agencies are politically motivated. Satyendar Jain is being pushed into the case. This false case won’t last. I would have taken action if this case had anything, but it has nothing in it.”
The Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain has been arrested by ED in money laundering case, with alleged hawala transactions related to a Kolkata-based company, on May 30. A special team raided Jain’s premises in Delhi. The case can be traced back to a complaint CBI filed against Jain in 2017. Following which, ED filed a criminal case since Jain could not explain the sources of funds received by four companies.
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