Tuesday 21 February 2017

INDIA: CBI arrests IRS officer J P Singh for bribery in IPL-betting scam


CBI on Tuesday arrested J P Singh, the then Joint Director in Enforcement Directorate, who was facing the agency's probe for allegedly receiving bribe from accused in IPL cricket-betting scam investigated by him.


Singh, a 2000-batch Indian Revenue Service officer of the Customs and Excise wing, was being probed by CBI on the basis of a complaint received from the ED.

He has now moved to his parent cadre as Commissioner, Customs and Excise wing, of Indian Revenue Service.

Besides Singh, CBI has also arrested enforcement officer Sanjay and two private persons-- Vimal Aggarwal and Chandresh Patel.

"It has been alleged that certain officers of Enforcement Directorate while investigating the cases of money laundering in betting and other such activities have allegedly demanded and accepted huge illegal gratification from the accused and suspect persons in the said cases," a statement from the CBI had said after registering a case against Singh.

The ED's Ahmedabad unit was probing the Rs 2,000-crore IPL betting scandal, and the Rs 5,000-crore money laundering case against alleged hawala operator Afroz Fatta, in which the suspects allegedly sought favours, said sources.



(Timesofindia)

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