By means of PTI
NEW DELHI: 4 luxurious automobiles, jewelry price Rs 14.5 lakh and Rs 4.5 lakh in money were seized following raids in opposition to Haryana Congress MLA Dharam Singh Chhoker and firms “owned and regulated” by means of him in a cash laundering case related to alleged dishonest of homebuyers, the Enforcement Directorate mentioned on Monday.
The 59-year-old legislator from Samalkha in Panipat district is said to be the “proprietor and promoter” of the Mahira actual property staff along side his sons Sikander Singh and Vikas Chhoker.
The motion below prison sections of the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act got here after the ED introduced searches in opposition to the legislator, Sai Aaina Farms Pvt Ltd (now Mahira Infratech Pvt Ltd), different firms of the Mahira Workforce and a few others on July 25, it mentioned in a observation.
11 places in Samalkha, Gurugram and Delhi had been raided by means of the federal probe company.
The cash laundering case stems from an FIR filed by means of the Gurugram Police in opposition to Sai Aaina Farms Pvt.Ltd. for “dishonest and forgery” as it’s speculated to have gathered about Rs 360 crore from 1,497 homebuyers below the inexpensive housing scheme at the promise of offering living devices in Sector 68 of Gurugram close to Delhi, the ED mentioned.
Alternatively, it didn’t ship the homes and ignored a couple of time limits, the probe company mentioned.
“The house consumers were preserving protests/dharnas since 365 days in opposition to the Mahira Workforce in quest of supply of the promised properties on the earliest,” it mentioned.
The ED additionally alleged that Chhoker, his sons and different key staff remained “absent” right through the searches and feature “no longer joined the investigation until date”.
Probe discovered that the entity (Sai Aaina Farms Pvt.Ltd.) siphoned off house consumers’ cash by means of reserving faux development expenditures in staff entities.
Money identical to the faux purchases used to be gained again from the entities offering faux expenses/invoices by means of the administrators and promoters of Mahira Workforce, which used to be used for private positive factors, the company alleged.
It mentioned a number of non-public and family-linked expenditure used to be booked as development and trade expenditure in staff entities.
The administrators/promoters additionally diverted homebuyers’ cash to different staff entities as loans (which is exceptional for years) for private positive factors and initial investigations display that they “siphoned off” about Rs 107.5 crore (faux bills to the level of Rs 57 crore and loans to staff entities to the level of Rs 50.50 crore) from Sai Aaina Farms Pvt.Ltd.
Those finances belonged to the house consumers of Sector 68 housing challenge, the probe company mentioned.
The ED mentioned its investigation into monetary transactions of 4 different inexpensive housing tasks being undertaken by means of the Chhoker-promoted staff is in growth and freezing orders in recognize of workplaces and financial institution accounts of the Mahira Workforce had been issued right through the searches.
4 luxurious automobiles (having acquisition price of about Rs 4 crore), jewelry price Rs 14.5 lakh, Rs 4.5 lakh money and “proof associated with siphoning of house purchaser finances” had been seized, the federal probe company mentioned.
NEW DELHI: 4 luxurious automobiles, jewelry price Rs 14.5 lakh and Rs 4.5 lakh in money were seized following raids in opposition to Haryana Congress MLA Dharam Singh Chhoker and firms “owned and regulated” by means of him in a cash laundering case related to alleged dishonest of homebuyers, the Enforcement Directorate mentioned on Monday.
The 59-year-old legislator from Samalkha in Panipat district is said to be the “proprietor and promoter” of the Mahira actual property staff along side his sons Sikander Singh and Vikas Chhoker.
The motion below prison sections of the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act got here after the ED introduced searches in opposition to the legislator, Sai Aaina Farms Pvt Ltd (now Mahira Infratech Pvt Ltd), different firms of the Mahira Workforce and a few others on July 25, it mentioned in a observation.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2′); );
11 places in Samalkha, Gurugram and Delhi had been raided by means of the federal probe company.
The cash laundering case stems from an FIR filed by means of the Gurugram Police in opposition to Sai Aaina Farms Pvt.Ltd. for “dishonest and forgery” as it’s speculated to have gathered about Rs 360 crore from 1,497 homebuyers below the inexpensive housing scheme at the promise of offering living devices in Sector 68 of Gurugram close to Delhi, the ED mentioned.
Alternatively, it didn’t ship the homes and ignored a couple of time limits, the probe company mentioned.
“The house consumers were preserving protests/dharnas since 365 days in opposition to the Mahira Workforce in quest of supply of the promised properties on the earliest,” it mentioned.
The ED additionally alleged that Chhoker, his sons and different key staff remained “absent” right through the searches and feature “no longer joined the investigation until date”.
Probe discovered that the entity (Sai Aaina Farms Pvt.Ltd.) siphoned off house consumers’ cash by means of reserving faux development expenditures in staff entities.
Money identical to the faux purchases used to be gained again from the entities offering faux expenses/invoices by means of the administrators and promoters of Mahira Workforce, which used to be used for private positive factors, the company alleged.
It mentioned a number of non-public and family-linked expenditure used to be booked as development and trade expenditure in staff entities.
The administrators/promoters additionally diverted homebuyers’ cash to different staff entities as loans (which is exceptional for years) for private positive factors and initial investigations display that they “siphoned off” about Rs 107.5 crore (faux bills to the level of Rs 57 crore and loans to staff entities to the level of Rs 50.50 crore) from Sai Aaina Farms Pvt.Ltd.
Those finances belonged to the house consumers of Sector 68 housing challenge, the probe company mentioned.
The ED mentioned its investigation into monetary transactions of 4 different inexpensive housing tasks being undertaken by means of the Chhoker-promoted staff is in growth and freezing orders in recognize of workplaces and financial institution accounts of the Mahira Workforce had been issued right through the searches.
4 luxurious automobiles (having acquisition price of about Rs 4 crore), jewelry price Rs 14.5 lakh, Rs 4.5 lakh money and “proof associated with siphoning of house purchaser finances” had been seized, the federal probe company mentioned.
