PATNA:
Enforcement Directorate
(ED) has arrested Subhash Yadav, a close aide of
RJD supremo Lalu Prasad
, in connection with a
money laundering case
involving
illegal sand mining
.
Yadav was arrested late Saturday night under the Prevention of
Money Laundering Act
(PMLA) following raids carried out by ED sleuths at several locations in Patna linked to him.
Sources in ED said Yadav was produced before a special PMLA court on Sunday morning before being sent to judicial custody.
Yadav had unsuccessfully contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections on RJD symbol from Chatra in neighbouring Jharkhand.
Sources said Yadav was arrested following questioning by ED officials who raided his residence in Danapur locality on Saturday. The agency also carried out simultaneous raids on his other residential locations in Patna. ED officials scanned documents related to sand mining and other financial transactions of Yadav before taking him into custody, sources said.
The money laundering case stems from a clutch of 20 FIRs registered by Bihar police against a firm, Broadsons Commodities Private Ltd (BCPL), and its directors, alleging that they were engaged in illegal mining and sale of sand without using e-challans.
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