NEW DELHI, June 7: More than ₹ two crores in cash and gold weighing 1.8 kg have been seized during searches by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case linked to the arrested Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain.
The searches were carried out on Monday. The Delhi Minister has been in the ED custody since June 1. The raids, including that at the residential premises of Jain in Delhi and certain other locations, are being conducted as part of a “follow up” in the case, officials said. The probe agency has been given custody of Jain till June 9.
Jain was arrested after the Enforcement Directorate in April this year attached immovable properties worth ₹ 4.81 crore in the money laundering case related to a Kolkata-based company.
(Manas Dasgupta)