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ED Seizes Over Rs 14 Crore in Coordinated Raids Targeting Alleged Coal Racket Across Jharkhand and Bengal

The money-laundering probe, built on multiple police FIRs, is now focused on tracking financial trails from seized deeds, ledgers and digital records that investigators say outline an organised network.

Overview

  • Enforcement Directorate teams searched 44 premises under PMLA, covering 20 sites in Jharkhand and 24 in West Bengal on November 21.
  • Officials reported recovering more than Rs 14 crore in cash and jewellery along with about 120 property deeds, electronic devices and account books.
  • Searches covered residences, offices, coke plants and alleged illegal toll points, with over 100 ED personnel working alongside CRPF escorts.
  • Premises linked to Lal Bahadur (Lalbabu) Singh, Anil Goyal, Sanjay Khemka, Amar Mondal, Narendra Kharka, Krishna Murari Kayal, Yudhishthir Ghosh and others were examined.
  • ED says diaries and registers detail illegal cash collections and beneficiaries, and that analysis of the seized material is underway as a parallel CBI probe nears legal milestones.