New Delhi, Oct 13 (PTI) The ED conducted searches againstits former joint director, another officer and a few bookiestoday in connection with its money laundering probe forallegedly receiving bribe for favouring an accused in the IPLcricket betting scam.
Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials said the raidswere conducted at nine locations in Delhi, Mumbai, Gujarat andLucknow.
The searches, they said, are being conducted at thepremises of former joint director J P Singh, formerenforcement officer (EO) Sanjay Kumar and two bookies.
About Rs 1.63 lakh in cash has been seized, they said.
The ED has registered a case under the Prevention ofMoney Laundering Act (PMLA) based on a CBI FIR.
Singh and Kumar were posted at the ED zonal office inAhmedabad.
The CBI had earlier said it its FIR that "it has beenalleged that certain officers of the Enforcement Directoratewhile investigating the cases of money laundering in bettingand other such activities have allegedly demanded and acceptedhuge illegal gratification from the accused and suspectpersons in the cases".
The ED's Ahmedabad unit was probing the Rs 2,000-croreIPL betting scandal, and the Rs 5,000-crore money launderingcase against alleged hawala operator Afroz Fatta, in which thesuspects allegedly sought favours, official sources said.
The CBI claimed that huge bribe amount was allegedlytaken by these officers as quid pro quo for various acts ofomission and commission.
The case against Singh and others has been registeredunder the provisions of criminal conspiracy under the IndianPenal Code and the Prevention of Corruption Act.
The sources said the ED director had received multiplecomplaints from various quarters about the alleged demand forbribe by the senior officials of its Ahmedabad unit. Thecomplaints were forwarded to the CBI. PTI NESSMN.
This is unedited, unformatted feed from the Press Trust of India wire.