Bihar deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav on Monday claimed that his married sisters and in-laws had been made to take off jewelry and images of the ornaments had been proven as restoration by the ED throughout searches on premises of his members of the family in reference to the alleged land-for-jobs rip-off, PTI reported.
Rubbishing the claims by Enforcement Directorate that proceeds of crime value Rs 600 crore had been detected through the searches, the RJD chief challenged the company to launch the seizure checklist.
“Persons are saying plenty of wealth has been recovered from me, ‘thenga mila hai’. I can problem them, difficulty the seizure checklist, or I am going to difficulty it,” ANI quoted Tejashwi as saying.
The deputy CM mentioned the investigative businesses are after him as if he’s the “actual Adani”, referring to businessman Gautam Adani who’s dealing with allegations of inventory manipulation and company fraud after a damning report by a US brief vendor.
“The CBI and ED have both received confused or my face matches with Adani’s? Ignoring the rip-off of Rs 80,000 crore, they’ve been raiding (my home) each two to 4 days for thus a few years, they usually get nothing,” he mentioned.
Tejashwi additionally alleged that the ED had completed its raid at his Delhi home final week “in half an hour” however its officers stayed on for hours awaiting “clearance from above”.
“Be it Union House Minister Amit Shah or anyone else, the director who repeats the identical script for these businesses should now be modified,” information company PTI quoted the RJD chief as saying.
He added, “We aren’t, just like the BJP-RSS, college students of whole political science. We’re practitioners of actual politics and have the conviction and public assist to take them on. However they’re scared and are attempting to run away from the political battle.”
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Final week, the ED mentioned in an announcement that it seized “unaccounted money” of Rs 1 crore and “detected proceeds of crime value Rs 600 crore” after it raided RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s household in reference to a cash laundering case linked to the railways land-for-jobs ‘rip-off’.
The ED had launched searches on Friday at a number of places linked to Lalu Prasad’s members of the family, together with that of his son Tejashwi in Delhi.
The CBI had additionally lately questioned Prasad and his spouse Rabri Devi — former chief ministers of Bihar — within the case.
The CBI has alleged that folks got employment within the Railways in return for land parcels gifted or bought at low cost charges to the Yadav household and its associates through the RJD supremo’s tenure as Railway minister within the UPA authorities from 2004 to 2009.
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