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West Bengal: ED attaches Rs 150 crore price belongings associated to PDS rip-off | India Information

NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday stated that it has connected Rs 150 crore price of properties in meals rip-off in West Bengal, this contains Salt Lake and Bolpur residences of Jyoti Priya Mallick, former meals minister in CM Mamata Banerjee’s cupboard. Mallick is at the moment in jail.ED stated that within the public distribution system rip-off, proceeds of crime (PoC) price greater than Rs 10,000 crore was generated.”In this case rice miller Bakibur Rahaman, Mallick and associates Sankar Addhya and Biswajit Das were arrested and all are at present in judicial custody,” stated ED.”It is also revealed during the investigation that a huge amount of PoC was laundered to Dubai and other countries by converting INR into foreign currencies,” the central company added.Mallick served because the meals provides minister from 2011 to 2021 earlier than being appointed because the minister of forest affairs and non-conventional and renewable vitality. The central company’s probe claims that Mallick’s spouse and daughter held directorial positions in three firms allegedly concerned in routing funds within the rip-off.Mallick’s portfolios within the division of forests and the general public enterprises and industrial reconstruction have been reassigned to ministers Birbaha Hansda and Partha Bhowmick.

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