Ranchi: Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday filed a fourth supplementary chargesheet against five people in connection with alleged embezzlement of funds meant MGNREGA in Khunti district, and money laundering.In addition, ED also filed chargesheets in cases related to illegal stone mining and embezzlement of funds in the drinking water and sanitation department.In a press statement issued on Monday night, ED said that the chargesheet has been filed against Amita Jha, Siddharth Singhal, Kamlesh Singhal, Pawan Kumar and a company in connection with the MGNREGA scam and money laundering.
Suspended IAS officer Pooja Singhal, her husband, Abhishek Jha, and her chartered accountant, Suman Kumar, are also accused in the case. The ED alleged that Jha’s mother, Amita, permitted the routing of proceeds of crime in unaccounted cash deposits through her bank accounts.Siddharth introduced the unaccounted cash as share capita in a firm. Suman’s brother, Pawan, Pooja’s mother, Kamlesh, were installed as designated partners of another firm and they acted as a benami front to conceal the beneficial ownership of Pooja over the company and its assets, the ED alleged.The central agency also filed another chargesheet in the illegal stone mining and money laundering case against six— Ashok Kumar Tulsyan, Sidharth Tulsyan, Chaman Tulsyan, Purshhotam Kumar, and two companies — under sections 44 and 45 of the PMLA Act.The investigation revealed large-scale illegal stone mining and unchartered transportation of stone minerals from Sahibganj.The agency filed another chargesheet against govt employee Santosh Kumar, his wife, Lalita Sinha, and his shell company for embezzlement of funds worth Rs 6.29 crore of the drinking water and sanitation department.
