Patna: The Enforcement Directorate has summoned RJD president and former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad, his spouse Rabri Devi and son Tej Pratap Yadav for questioning within the land-for-jobs cash laundering case, official sources stated on Tuesday. Whereas Prasad, 76, has been requested to depose earlier than the federal probe company in Patna on Wednesday, his kin have been requested to seem on Tuesday. The statements of the three are to be recorded below the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA), the sources stated. The sources, nonetheless, stated that Prasad and his members of the family could not seem earlier than the company.
Prasad and his youthful son Tejashwi Yadav have been questioned by the ED on this case earlier. Final 12 months, the ED filed a chargesheet within the case in opposition to Prasad’s members of the family earlier than a Delhi court docket, naming Rabri Devi and their daughters Misa Bharti and Hema Yadav as accused other than some others.
The probe pertains to the allegation that Prasad, throughout his tenure because the railway minister within the UPA-1 authorities on the Centre, indulged in corruption for the appointment of group D substitutes in Indian Railways throughout 2004-2009.
Based on a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) FIR, the candidates have been informed to “switch land as a bribe” in return for jobs within the railways, the ED stated in a press release earlier. The cash laundering case is predicated on the CBI grievance.
“The members of the family of Lalu Prasad — Rabri Devi, Misa Bharti and Hema Yadav — who have been made accused within the ED chargesheet, acquired land parcel(s) from the household of candidates (who have been chosen as group D substitutes in Indian Railways) for nominal quantities.
“Hridyanand Chaudhary, one other accused named within the chargesheet, is a former worker within the gaushala of Rabri Devi who had acquired property from one of many candidates and later transferred the identical to Hema Yadav,” the ED has stated.
Corporations like A Okay Infosystems Non-public Restricted and A B Exports Pvt. Ltd. have been “shell” corporations which acquired proceeds of crime for Prasad’s members of the family, the company stated, including that immovable properties have been acquired within the title of the stated corporations by “entrance males”. Later, the ED claimed, shares have been transferred to Prasad’s members of the family for nominal quantities.
