ED Conducts Searches at Arrested Delhi Minister Satyendar Jain's Residence

The ED had arrested Satyendar Jain on 30 May and a special court had last week granted ED his custody till 9 June.

Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain, arrested in connection with a money laundering case, being taken to the Rouse Avenue court, in New Delhi, on Tuesday, May 31.

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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday, 6 June, searched the residence of Delhi's Health and Home Minister Satyendar Jain in connection with alleged hawala transactions related to a Kolkata-based company.

The raids are being conducted as part of a "follow up" in the case, officials told news agency PTI.

Jain, who holds health, power, and home portfolios, was on Monday arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in a case related to money laundering. The portfolios allocated to Jain were handed over to Sisodia on Thursday.

A special court had last week granted ED custody of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader till 9 June.

The agency, in April this year, provisionally attached immovable properties worth Rs 4.81 crore belonging to companies allegedly linked to Jain and his relatives under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002.

The ED's probe had reportedly revealed that during the period from 2015-16, the companies owned and controlled by Jain received accommodation entries of nearly Rs 4.81 crore from shell companies against cash transferred to Kolkata-based entry operators through the "hawala route".

CM Kejriwal Calls Case a 'Fraud'

CM Arvind Kejriwal has called the case a fraud and said Jain has been targeted because of political reasons.

"We neither tolerate corruption nor do we do corruption. We have a very honest government. He has been targeted because of political reasons," Aam Aadmi Party Convener Kejriwal said.

In January this year, he claimed that Jain could be arrested by the ED ahead of the Punjab elections.

(With inputs from PTI.)