UP foodgrain scam: ED registers 11 cases
Wednesday, 20 April 2011, 19:39 IST
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Lucknow:The Enforcement Directorate has registered 11 cases under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act in connection with an alleged multi-crore foodgrain scam in Uttar Pradesh. "The ED has lodged 11 separate FIRs under the Money Laundering Act in connection with multi-crore foodgrain scam spread over several districts of the state," official sources said. The ED has taken up cases which were investigated by the Special Investigation Team constituted by the state government to probe the foodgrain scam. "A number of officers and staff of food and civil supplies department, contractors, whole sellers and transporters have been named in the FIRs," the sources said. The CBI had informed the High Court, which ordered the agency to probe the cases, about embezzlement to the tune of several crore of rupees.
Source: PTI
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