The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has Bhupinder Singh Honey, the nephew of Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, in connection with a Prevention of Money Laundering case pertaining to illegal mining in Punjab, said officials on Friday.<\/p>\n
Honey was summoned by the ED for the second time on Thursday and after a day-long questioning was placed under arrest, the official added.<\/p>\n
Honey was earlier summoned by the ED to join the investigation on January 23, but he skipped the first summon on health issues and didn’t join the investigation.<\/p>\n
Honey informed the ED officials that he was Covid positive and was unable to join the probe. <\/p>\n
On January 18, ED had conducted raids at ten different locations, including Homeland Heights which is the residence of Honey.<\/p>\n
The ED continued raiding at different places for two days and recovered incriminating documents.<\/p>\n
Honey was asked to appear before the ED’s zonal office in Jalandhar. He had to record his statement in connection with the ongoing probe.<\/p>\n
The ED officials had recorded the statement of Kudrat Deep Singh, the business partner of Honey.<\/p>\n
The ED official had said that they seized incriminating documents pertaining to illegal sand mining, property transactions, cell phones, gold worth above Rs 21 lakh and a watch worth Rs 12 lakh and cash Rs 10 crore during the raid.<\/p>\n
A source said that the documents recovered by them have confirmed that Kudrat Deep Singh was running two firms and Bhupinder Singh Honey was a joint director in them.<\/p>\n
As per sources, the firms are basically shell companies, but ED has found a lot of money transactions. One of the firms is Provider Overseas Consultancy Limited, which was incorporated in 2018 with 33.33 per cent equal shares.<\/p>\n
The ED case is on the basis of a two year old FIR. The Punjab Police had on March 7, 2018, lodged a case against more than ten accused.<\/p>\n
The ED initiated a money laundering probe on the basis of this FIR pertaining to illegal sand mining in Punjab in November last year.<\/p>\n
The FIR which was filed under several sections of IPC has been accessed.<\/p>\n
Bhupinder Singh Honey was not named in the Punjab Police’s FIR and Kudrat Deep Singh was given a clean chit in the matter.<\/p>\n
The ED found that money was being laundered by the accused involved in the case and they started probing the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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