Satyendar Jain
Satyendar Jain claims memory loss due to Covid when confronted with documents in money laundering probe: ED
New Delhi/IBNS: Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain has claimed to have lost his memory due to the effect of Covid-19 during questioning in connection with the money laundering case, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has informed the trial court.
Additional Solicitor General (ASG) S V Raju told the court that Jain made the memory loss claim when he was confronted with documents relating to his membership of trusts that received money from hawala transactions.
The AAP minister’s ED custody was earlier extended till Monday.
He was arrested in a money laundering case on May 30.
The probe agency had alleged that the minister in the Arvind Kejriwal government was involved in hawala transactions with a Kolkata-based firm in 2015-16.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) earlier had filed a case against Jain and his family in August 2017 for alleged money laundering up to Rs. 1.62 crore.
The CBI alleged that Jain and his family set up four shell firms, companies with no real business, to launder Rs. 11.78 crore in 2011-12 and Rs. 4.63 crore in 2015-16.
The ED then started its probe into the money laundering allegations based on the CBI's first information report or FIR.
AAP earlier called it a fake case.
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