The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Tuesday started looking the residence of Aam Aadmi Occasion (AAP) chief and Mohali MLA Kulwant Singh in addition to varied areas linked to him throughout Punjab in reference to an ongoing investigation right into a cash laundering case.
Groups from the ED’s Delhi unit, accompanied by the native police, started looking Singh’s palatial residence within the Janta Land Promoters Restricted (JLPL) space in Mohali within the morning. JLPL is Singh’s actual property firm. As per ED sources, Singh shouldn’t be dwelling at current however his relations are being questioned by the central company’s workforce.
Numerous different areas throughout Punjab linked to Singh, who’s reportedly Punjab’s richest MLA, have been additionally being searched in parallel raids which have been nonetheless underway on the time of submitting this report.
Sources with the ED instructed The Indian Categorical that the searches have been in reference to an ongoing probe into the Pearl Agrotech Company Restricted (PACL) case. The administrators of PACL had allegedly siphoned off traders’ funds by transferring them to shell corporations in a number of areas. These funds have been then withdrawn in money and handed over to key PACL associates earlier than being transferred to corporations outdoors India by means of hawala for buying properties.
Final 12 months, Kulwant Singh was questioned by the Jalandhar unit of the ED in reference to a cash laundering case associated to alleged drug trafficking.
Singh, who reportedly has property price Rs 1,000 crore, joined the AAP in December 2021 and gained the 2022 Meeting elections from Mohali.
In 2015, he grew to become the primary mayor of the Mohali Municipal Company with Congress help. He joined the Shiromani Akali Dal in 2017 however was expelled for “anti-party actions” after he unsuccessfully contested the 2021 civic polls as an Unbiased.
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