A few months back the Income tax authorities had issued summons to RJD Chief Lalu Prasad Yadav‘s daughter Misa Bharti and her husband Shailesh Kumar in connection with alleged Rs 1,000-crore benami property deals in the Bijwasan area of Delhi through a web of shell companies. A series of CBI raids were conducted on the premises of Lalu Yadav’s daughter and the shell companies related in the case.
As per the latest updates regarding the case, Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached one of the farmhouse in Delhi on Tuesday in connection with the investigation of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) against RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s MP, daughter Misa Bharti and her husband. The farmhouse located at the 26, Palam farms in south Delhi’s Bijwasan area had been temporarily sezied by the ED. The Central Investigation Agency said that the farmhouse belongs to Misa and her husband Shailesh Kumar and is named after Ms Mishail Packers and Printers Private Limited. It was purchased in 2008-09 using 1.2 crore rupees involved in the money laundering.During the investigation against two brothers Surendra Kumar and Virendra Jain
During the investigation against two brothers Surendra Kumar and Virendra Jain, who were alleged to have been involved in manipulating crores of rupees through multiple shell companies, the agency had also conducted raids on many other sites including the farm house in July. Both the brothers were later arrested under the PMLA and are in judicial custody right now. The agency had also arrested a charted accountant named Rajesh Agarwal who played the role of a mediator between the two brothers and had also paid a cash in advance of Rs 90 lakhs for investing in the shares of M/s Mishail Packers and Printers Private Limited.
Misa Bharti and her husband Shailesh Kumar were the directors of the shell company under whose name the farmhouse was registered. According to the agency, before Misa bought the shares the address of M/s Mishail Packers and Printers Private Limited.Company was registered at 25, Tughlaq Road, New Delhi.
During the investigation of the case, the agency also questioned the couple and recorded their statements. ED said that Jain brothers, Chartered Accountant Agarwal and Lalu’s daughter Misa Bharti and son-in-law Shailesh Kumar are the main accused in the case of Rs 1.20 crore of money laundering.