The Union dwelling ministry has requested the president to grant sanctions to prosecute AAP chief and former Delhi minister Satyendar Jain in a money-laundering case being investigated by the ED, sources informed PTI on Friday.
“The sanction towards the 60-year-old politician has been sought underneath Part 218 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita,” they stated.
The ministry requested the sanction on the premise of an Enforcement Directorate (ED) investigation and the presence of “enough proof”, they added.
The federal company charged Satyendar Jain in a money-laundering case related to alleged hawala transactions and arrested him in Could 2022.
He’s at present out on bail and has been charge-sheeted by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). The cash-laundering case originates from an August 2017 FIR filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), accusing Jain and others of possessing disproportionate property.
The CBI filed a chargesheet in December 2018, stating that the alleged disproportionate property had been to the tune of ₹1.47 crore, about 217 per cent greater than Jain’s recognized sources of earnings throughout 2015-17, PTI reported.
