[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday, Dec 23, filed a chargesheet against Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad’s daughter Misa Bharti and her husband, Shailesh Kumar in a money laundering case.

Separately, a Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Ranchi will pronounce its verdict in the fodder scam case in which Misa’s father and former Bihar CM Lalu Prasad Yadav is an accused. The case pertains to fraudulent withdrawal of more than Rs 89 lakh from Deoghar Treasury between 1991 and 1994.

Earlier, the ED probe had attached a farmhouse at 26, Palam Farms at Bijwasan in South Delhi belonging to Bharti and Kumar under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in connection with the case.

On paper, the farmhouse is held in the name of ‘M/s Mishail Packers and Printers Private Limited’ and was purchased using Rs. 1.2 crore involved in money laundering in the year 2008-09, the ED said, according to media reports.

ED had also conducted raids at this location and few others in July during investigations against two brothers, Surendra Kumar Jain and Virendra Jain, and others alleged to have laundered several crore rupees using shell companies. The ED has arrested the Jain brothers as well under PMLA.

One of the firms that the arrested duo dealt with was Mishail Printers and Packers Private Limited. Ms Bharti and her husband are alleged to have been directors of this firm in the past.

It had also arrested a chartered accountant, Rajesh Agrawal, who mediated and provided a cash amount of Rs. 90 lakh to the Jain brothers in advance so as to invest in M/s Mishail Packers and Printers Pvt Ltd as share premium.

“The company, Ms Mishail Packers and Printers, was registered at the address 25, Tuglak Road, New Delhi till the shares were bought by Bharti. It was only during the year 2009-10 that the address was changed to farm no 26 Palam Farms, VPO Bijwasan, New Delhi. Bharti and Kumar were the directors of the company during the relevant period,” the ED said.

The agency said the Jain brothers, CA Agrawal and Lalu Prasad’s daughter and son-in-law were the key persons behind the money laundering of Rs. 1.2 crore.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Rajesh Agarwal was arrested for allegedly converting black money through doubtful transactions in connivance with two brothers S.K. Jain and V.K. Jain.

The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday arrested the chartered accountant of Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav’s daughter Misa Bharti in relation with a money laundering case.

According to news agency IANS, Rajesh Agarwal, the accountant was arrested from Delhi for alleged money laundering and involvement in black money market.

He was arrested for allegedly converting black money through doubtful transactions in connivance with two brothers S.K. Jain and V.K. Jain. The Jain brothers were arrested by ED on March 20.

Nearly 90 shell companies were reportedly under ED scanner.

The accountant has also been accused of helping Bharti’s husband’s company Mishail Packers and Printers Pvt Ltd.

The arrest comes after the May 16 Income Tax raids at 22 places in connection with Lalu Prasad Yadav’s “benami” property deals in collusion with his family- Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav, Health Minister Tej Pratap Yadav and Misa Bharti, who is also Rajya Sabha MP.

The nabbed Agarwal will be produced in a Delhi court later in the day.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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