Special court takes cognizance of complaint against Sanjay Bhandari and others under PMLA
New Delhi: A Special Court has taken cognizance of prosecution criticism in opposition to Sanjay Bhandari and different co-conspirators in reference to a money-laundering case.
The Special CBI Judge, Rouse Avenue Court, on Thursday (October 15) additionally issued summons to the accused individuals and directed the ED to expedite the method of extradition in opposition to Sanjay Bhandari pending earlier than UK Authorities in order that he will be dropped at India for trial in accordance with legislation.
The Special Judge has additionally permitted the Enforcement Directorate to hold out additional investigation on this case.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had filed the prosecution criticism underneath part 44 and 45 of Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA) on June 1, 2020 in opposition to Sanjay Bhandari and different co-conspirators, together with numerous corporations floated by Sanjay Bhandari in abroad jurisdiction, for the offence of cash laundering underneath part three of PMLA punishable underneath part four of PMLA.
The criticism underneath Section 51(1) of the Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Act, 2015 [Black Money Act] was filed in opposition to accused Sanjay Bhandari earlier than Ld. ACMM by Income Tax authorities in pursuance of proceedings initiated in opposition to him by the Income Tax Department underneath the provisions of Black Money Act.
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The criticism revealed that Sanjay Bhandari stashed black cash overseas with the help of his accomplices to evade taxes inflicting large monetary loss to the nationwide exchequer.
Since the offence underneath Section 51 of the Black Money Act is a scheduled offence underneath PMLA, the ED probe the matter and in the course of the course of investigation, it was revealed that Sanjay Bhandari integrated numerous entities in UAE as proprietor / useful proprietor and likewise had monetary curiosity in entity integrated in Panama.
The probe additionally revealed that every one these overseas belongings and entities weren’t disclosed by Sanjay Bhandari to Income Tax authorities in India.
The ED had talked about about particular prices of alleged possession of undisclosed properties by Sanjay Bhandari in overseas nations. This additionally contains his hyperlinks to a flat in London, during which the company had questioned Robert Vadra, the son-in-law of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and husband of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
Robert Vadra had denied any wrongdoing, and his authorized agency had additionally denied that he owned the London property straight or not directly.
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