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Seized currency successful Monoharpukur connected Friday. (Express)
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) connected Friday seized astir Rs 3 crore from a businessman’s location successful southbound Kolkata’s Lake Market area, isolated from 2 different places arsenic portion of its ongoing probe into an alleged lottery scam, an serviceman said.
The cardinal bureau conducted hunt operations astatine aggregate locations successful West Bengal since Thursday successful transportation with the alleged scam. According to a elder ED officer, the raids uncovered astir Rs 3 crore successful cash, and the counting process is inactive ongoing.
A note-counting instrumentality was brought to the businessman’s residence connected Kavi Bharati Sarani to facilitate the tallying of the seized money, the authoritative further said.
Additionally, the ED besides brought akin instrumentality to different determination successful Madhyamgram, successful North 24 Parganas district, wherever hunt operations person been underway since Thursday.
The bureau searched a gathering successful Madhyamgram’s Michael Nagar, reportedly being utilized some arsenic an bureau and a godown for the alleged lottery operation. According to an ED official, the lottery tickets, were being printed and distributed from the building.
During the raid, the bureau confiscated respective documents from the site. “The hunt is on. We person seized respective documents, but cannot speech astir the wealth portion astatine the moment,” an ED authoritative said.
The Enforcement Directorate probe into the lottery scam is portion of a broader wealth laundering probe, that extends nationwide, with searches taking spot successful West Bengal, Sikkim, and Tamil Nadu. The ED antecedently attached assets worthy implicit Rs 277 crore successful Tamil Nadu arsenic portion of the probe into the scam.
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