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ED crackdown on shell companies
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday conducted countrywide searches at over 110 locations as part of its major crackdown on 500 shell companies suspected to be generating huge amounts of black money.
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday conducted countrywide searches at over 110 locations as part of its major crackdown on 500 shell companies suspected to be generating huge amounts of black money.
The raid operations across 17 states began early morning with ED sleuths swooping down at market places, business centres, residential premises and even houses put up on rent to hunt down the allegedly dubious and suspicious firms which the agency believes are the "back bone" of black money in the country.
By the last update, ED teams had visited at least 110 locations in cities like Kolkata, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Panaji, Kochi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Delhi, Lucknow, Patna, Jaipur, Chandigarh, Jalandhar, Srinagar, Indore and some in Haryana. The agency searched those companies allegedly related to Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, Rajeshwar Exports and others to unearth their modus operandi.
Reddy is facing separate CBI and ED probes in cases of alleged disproportionate assets, corruption and money laundering. The agency said it searched a Mumbai-based operator who was running 700 shell companies with 20 dummy directors and had "converted Rs 46.7 crore for Chaggan Bhujbal", the jailed ex-Maharashtra deputy chief minister.
The central probe agency, which has a total strength of about 800 officers and staff at its various regional and zonal offices in the country, was virtually out on the field to undertake one of the biggest operations in the country against shell firms.
The drive was part of a recent PMO directive to check the illegal operations of these companies. "The operations are based on various investigations done by the agency and some others as part of their anti-black money crackdown charter," ED Director Karnal Singh said.
He said the operations were still on. ED teams also visited those who are allegedly connected to some of the most prominent corruption and black money cases being probed in the country at present.
