Alleged close aide of Punjab Congress leader and former Punjab minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu, Rajdeep Singh Nagra was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with a tender "scam" linked money laundering case, the official sources informed today.
ED carried out searches at four of Singh's business and residence premises in Punjab, followed by which he was then taken into custody yesterday night.
Ashu, 53, was arrested by the federal agency in this case on August 1. He is a former minister of consumer affairs, food, and civil supplies of Punjab and a working president of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee. He represented Ludhiana (West) in the state Assembly.
Case:
The money-laundering investigation stems from a Punjab Vigilance Bureau FIR in connection with a tender "scam" in the Punjab Department of Food. He was arrested by the Punjab Vigilance Bureau in this case in August 2022.
A year later in August 2023, the ED raided the premises of Ashu, Raman Balasubramanium, a former chairman of the Ludhiana Improvement Trust, and some others.
The ED, after Ashu's arrest, had alleged that the former minister laundered the "proceeds of crime" through several shell entities and purchased properties in his name and the name of his family members.
Meanwhile, the grand old party condemned the arrest of Ashu, naming it as 'vendetta politics'.
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