ED seizes gems, jewellery, papers relating to Swiss Bank account from hawala trade Lodha's Kolkata bank locker
According to reports, ED officials earlier carried out hour-long raids at the office of Parasmal Lodha's firm- Peerless Consultancy Services Pvt Ltd- at Behala's S.N. Roy Road area in Kolkata and his residence in city's posh Ballygunge Queens Park Road area on Tuesday (Dec 27) and recovered several documents and hard discs from the premises.
During the raids, investigators came to know about few bank accounts and lockers of Lodha in Kolkata and searched the locker at a nationalized bank in city's Alipore area on Wednesday.
Besides gems and jewelleries, ED reportedly seized several documents, related to Lodha's purported Swiss bank account, from the locker.
Meanwhile, ED officials on Thursday searched few more bank accounts of Lodha on Kolkata, according to reports.
Earlier on Dec 22, nearly 62-year-old Kolkata-based hawala trader Parasmal Lodha was arrested by the ED from Mumbai airport, while he was trying to flee to Malaysia.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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