New Delhi: Binod Sinha, a close associate of former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda, was arrested in New Delhi on Thursday by CBI in a disproportionate assets case and will be taken to Ranchi for further interrogation.
Sinha was wanted by different vigilance and enforcement agencies in the alleged hawala case involving the former CM and two ministers -- Enos Ekka and Harinarain Rai -- and was evading arrest for quite some time, a CBI official said.
He was arrested from his "hideout" in south Delhi, the official said.
"The arrested accused had been evading various law enforcement agencies for several months. The vigilance court of Ranchi had also issued an arrest warrant against him in February 2007, which remained unexecuted," a CBI spokesman said in a statement.
"The accused will be produced before a court in Delhi tomorrow for obtaining transit remand and will be further produced before the Special Judge, CBI, Ranchi," he said.
Jharkhand Vigilance Bureau had registered an FIR on July 2, 2009 on accumulation of disproportionate assets allegedly by Koda and some former state ministers.
The case was later transferred to CBI by the Jharkhand High Court and accordingly a case was registered on August 11, 2010 alleging that Sinha earned crores of rupees by engineering allotment of mining leases to his own companies or his associates for commission during the regime of Koda, the spokesman said.
"Further, the arrested accused is alleged to have acquired large number of properties and companies, within and outside the country out of this ill-gotten wealth," the official said.
Sinha has been charged with investing money on behalf of Koda in India and Middle-East countries by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).
The court's direction followed a PIL filed by social activist Durga Oraon who sought a CBI probe into the disproportionate assets allegedly owned by Koda and his former cabinet colleagues.
The ED and the Income Tax Department are separately investigating allegations of illegal investment and hawala transactions against Koda and others.
On October nine last year, the ED had filed an FIR against Koda and some others. On October 31, the Income Tax officials had conducted raids in the premises of Koda and his aides.
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