Two days after searching at 37 places as part of its money laundering investigation to investigate the alleged corruption in the construction of classes in Delhi government schools, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) said on Friday that it was connected to the country accounts. The ED also recovered the original departmental files related to the Delhi government along with rubber stamps from the Public Works Department (PWD) with the names and designations of the officers.
The agency said that mule accounts were opened in the name of laborers and used to remove government funds under the guise of legitimate transactions.
On 30 April, the anti-corruption branch of the Delhi Police (ACB) filed the first information report (FIR) against former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) ministers Manish Sisodia and Satyendra Jain on alleged corruption in the construction of classes. ACB on Friday questioned Sisodia regarding the case.
“The ED launched an investigation on the basis of the FIR registered by the ACB against Manish Sisodia (then Education Minister), Satyendra Jain (then PWD Minister) and others related to financial misconduct were more than Rs 2,000 crore between PWD and 2023 in the construction of around 12,748 additional classes.”
According to the central agency, despite the initial requirement for 2,405 classes, the scope of the project arbitrarily increased to 7,180 equivalent classes, and later up to 12,748 rooms without proper approval or approval, resulting in large -scale cost increase.
The ED spokesperson said, “In addition, the rich specifications proposed by M/S Babbar and Babbar Associates were adopted unjust, and duplicate and bloated works were executed. The cost of up to 49.03 percent was seen in priority-i and priority-second stages.
During its discoveries, the agency allegedly found adequate evidence from the premises of a private contractor. The spokesperson said, “The seized materials had original departmental files related to the Delhi government, as well as rubber stamps about the names and designations of the officers from PWD,” the spokesperson said.
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The spokesperson said, “The ED has found forged letters from various private contractors and shell institutions, which were used to make fake procurement records, and the fictional procurement bills were seized,” the spokesperson said.
“Evidence related to fake challans presented to the departments of Delhi government, showed, found and seized, showed and confiscated. Many dummy firms have been found during the discovery, with no real infrastructure, documentation, or operating validity, but not related to additional classes. Search,” ED’s spokesman said.
Earlier, in response to ED action, AAP said: “The BJP has continuously called the poor and marginalized livelihood in Delhi.
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