The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested former MUDA (Mysuru Urban Development Authority) commissioner Dinesh Kumar under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in a case concerning the alleged illegal allotment of land plots, officials confirmed on Wednesday.
Kumar is expected to be produced before a designated special PMLA court in Bengaluru, where the agency will seek his custody.
The arrest follows searches conducted by the federal investigating agency at two of Kumar's residential properties in Bengaluru on Tuesday in connection with the MUDA illegal sites allocation "scam."
As per sources within the ED, their probe found that during his tenure as MUDA commissioner, Kumar was involved in the “large-scale illegal allotment” of MUDA sites in exchange for “gratification and other benefits”. The investigation has established Kumar being actively involved in money laundering activities.
The ED's money laundering investigation into the MUDA land parcel allotment case is based on a Karnataka Lokayukta Police FIR. The FIR had named Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, his wife BM Parvathi, the CM's brother-in-law Mallikarjuna Swamy, Devaraju — from whom Swamy purchased the land under investigation and later gifted it to Parvathi — and several others.
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