Assam Rifles officer arrested in a money laundering case
The ED registered the case against the officer after taking cognizance of the July 2019 FIR and the charge sheet filed against him by the CBI in March last year.
The ED on Wednesday said a fixed deposit of Rs 2.22 crore of an officer of the paramilitary force Assam Rifles has been attached under the Anti-Money Laundering Act as part of its probe into the alleged disproportionate assets case.
The officer against whom the provisional attachment of assets under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) has been initiated is Rajdev Singh Yadav, Class II, posted at the Assam Rifles Training Center in Dimapur, Nagaland, the agency said. Statement.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested the officer after taking cognizance of the July 2019 FIR and the charge sheet filed against him by the CBI in March last year.
The probe found, the ED said, that Mr Yadav, while serving as Staff Officer-II, Establishment and Drawing and Disbursing Officer (DDO) at the Assam Rifles headquarters in Shillong, “deposited huge cash in his bank accounts”. and amassed huge wealth, which were disproportionate to all his known sources of income”.
This was done during the period between 06.12.2012 and 31.07.2019, it said.
The Assam Rifles is primarily tasked with guarding the 1,643-km-long Indian front with Myanmar and operating under the command of the Union Home Ministry.
Assam Rifles officer arrested in a money laundering case
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