NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday filed supplementary charge sheet before a Delhi court against journalist Upendra Rai, accusing him of laundering around Rs 23 crore.
The supplementary charge sheet, filed before Additional Sessions Judge Rakesh Syal, against Rai and four others, has sought their prosecution for money laundering.
The court put the final report, filed by ED's special public prosecutors N K Matta and Nitesh Rana, for consideration tomorrow.
In an earlier charge sheet in the case, the ED had alleged that Rai projected properties, worth over Rs 29 crore, which he generated through "blackmail" and "extortion" as a scribe, as untainted.
The Delhi-based journalist was arrested by the agency for alleged money laundering, punishable under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
It had said that Rai was a journalist, who crafted leverage out of his access to government offices as a mediaperson.
The agency further said Rai used the "ill-gotten" money to acquire various movable and immovable properties in his or in the name of his family members, in his personal and travel expenses, and also used it to repay loans taken from financial organisations to acquire various properties.
Rai was arrested on June 8 by the ED under the PMLA at the Tihar jail here, moments after he secured bail in a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) case related to alleged extortion and dubious financial transactions.
The ED had registered a money laundering case against him based on the CBI FIR related to alleged extortion and dubious financial transactions.