Probe Company ED Seeks Arrest Warrant Towards AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan In Delhi Waqf Board Cash Laundering Case
Earlier, Court docket had issued summons to AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan in cash laundering case.
New Delhi:
The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday moved a Delhi courtroom in search of arrest warrant towards AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan in a cash laundering case associated to alleged irregularities in appointments within the Delhi Waqf Board.
Particular Choose for CBI and ED, Rakesh Syal, posted the matter for April 18 after the ED sought time to file sure paperwork in help of the appliance.
“Contemporary software for issuance of open ended non-bailable warrant towards Amanatullah Khan has been acquired from the Bail and Submitting Part. Or not it’s checked and registered as per guidelines SPP (particular public prosecutor) for ED seeks a while to file sure paperwork in help of the appliance. Heard. As requested, put up for consideration on April 18, 2024,” the decide stated.
Mr Khan, the Okhla MLA of the Aam Aadmi Get together (AAP), was not named as an accused in a current chargesheet filed by the ED.
The ED, nonetheless, moved a magisterial courtroom lately in search of prosecution of Mr Khan for allegedly evading company’s summons within the case case.
The federal probe company additionally alleged earlier than the ACMM that Mr Khan has elevated his function from witness to accused by submitting anticipatory bail plea and operating away from the investigation.
The ED had additionally said that the company was not capable of conclude probe towards Mr Khan as a result of he was not presenting himself earlier than it.
“All the opposite individuals are the aides of this explicit particular person. His function is way bigger than the opposite accused individuals who’ve been already arrested and chargesheeted,” the ED had stated.
The company has named 5 entities in its prosecution grievance (the ED’s equal of a chargesheet), together with three suspected associates of Mr Khan — Zeeshan Haider, Daud Nasir and Jawed Imam Siddiqui.
The company had, after conducting raids on premises linked to Mr Khan and a few others in October final yr, claimed that the AAP MLA had acquired “large proceeds of crime” in money via unlawful recruitment of employees to the Delhi Waqf Board and invested these for buying immovable belongings within the title of his associates.
The searches have been carried out within the case associated to the unlawful recruitment of employees and illegitimate private positive aspects made by the accused by unfairly leasing out the Waqf Board properties from 2018 to 2022 when Mr Khan was its chairperson, the ED has alleged.
The cash laundering case stems from an FIR lodged by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and three Delhi Police complaints.
A number of “incriminating” materials within the type of bodily and digital proof have been seized through the raids, indicating Khan’s involvement within the offence of cash laundering, as per the company.
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