The Enforcement Directorate filed a prosecution grievance on Wednesday in reference to the alleged misappropriation of Rs 94.73-crore authorities funds, which got here to gentle after a superintendent of the Karnataka Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Improvement Company died by suicide in Could.
In response to a publish on X by the ED, the Particular Courtroom for MPs and MLAs in Bengaluru has taken cognisance of the prosecution grievance within the case.
In his dying word, Chandrashekaran P, who ended his life on Could 26, accused senior officers of the company of forcing him to divert its funds to a parallel account at Union Financial institution of India in March this 12 months on the idea of “oral directions from a minister”.
After the company official’s suicide, the federal government shaped a particular investigation crew to inquire into the allegations. The SIT arrested the company’s former managing director J J Padmanabh and accounts officer Parashuram G Duragannavar for alleged misuse of funds in connivance with Union Financial institution of India officers. The CBI and the ED later registered circumstances in reference to the rip-off.
B Nagendra, who needed to resign as tribal affairs minister, was arrested by the ED on July 12, a day after his residence and workplace have been raided.
In a associated growth, an official of the state social welfare division filed a police grievance on July 22 stating that two ED officers investigating the rip-off had put stress on him to call Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Nagendra, amongst others, within the case. An FIR was subsequently registered by the Wilson Backyard police on the grievance.
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