Delhi Classroom case: ED recovers 322 passbooks linked to mule accounts

The company additionally seized solid letterheads of personal contractors and shell corporations used to manufacture procurement data and generate bogus buy payments, together with authentic authorities departmental recordsdata and rubber stamps bearing the names and designations of officers from the Public Works Department (PWD).

“During searches, ED unearthed substantial incriminating proof from the premises of a non-public contractor. Among the supplies seized have been authentic recordsdata belonging to the #Delhi authorities, and 322 passbooks linked to mule accounts in labourers’ names used to masks the diversion of public cash beneath the guise of authentic funds,” the company stated in a press release.

ED stated these mule accounts and solid paperwork have been a part of a wider operation involving pretend invoices and inflated or solely bogus claims for development work on further lecture rooms. Dummy corporations with no infrastructure or operational legitimacy had been proven to obtain substantial funds for these actions. Substantial paperwork and digital proof pointing to irregularities have been seized, the company added.

The raids have been carried out throughout 37 places in #Delhi on June 18. The ED’s probe relies on an FIR registered by the #Delhi authorities’s Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB), which is investigating procedural lapses and suspected corruption in a mission involving the development of 12,748 semi-permanent lecture rooms. Initially estimated at ₹860 crore, the mission’s price reportedly rose to over ₹2,800 crore between 2015 and 2023, allegedly with out recent tenders or adherence to plain procurement guidelines.

Senior #Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders and former #Delhi ministers #Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain are presently beneath investigation by each the ACB and ED in reference to the case.

Reacting to the June 18 raids, the AAP stated in a press release that the “so-called raids are nothing however a determined try and divert public consideration,” calling the allegations “baseless, politically motivated, and geared toward distracting from the BJP’s anti-people actions.”