CBI arrests 4 in hawala/IPL betting bribing case including ex joint Director of ED J P Singh, subordinate and conduits

Ahmedabad/New Delhi: The central bureau of investigation (CBI) today arrested controversial IRS officer and the then joint director of ED in Ahmedbad, JP Singh and three others including one of his subordinate officers in the sensational IPL betting and Hawala related bribing case.
Singh, former joint director of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Ahmedabad, his then subordinate Sanjay Kumar and two others identified as Vimal Aggarwal and Chandresh Patel.have been arrested in connection with an alleged corruption case pertaining to collecting huge amount of money from the accused in Surat hawala case and cricket betting racket which was busted two years ago..

A CBI spokesperson confirmed the arrests reportedly done in Delhi.

The CBI had earlier arrested 3 bookies who acted as conduits to Singh in connection with the case. It has been alleged that Singh collected bribes through his conduits in the PMLA case Surat hawal racket and the IPL betting case which he was investigating.

CBI lodged an FIR based on complaint registered by ED officials. Earlier, the allegations were leveled by various accused who were being probed by the Singh of bribery and harassment. Before CBI lodged the FIR, Intelligence Bureau (IB) had also made a report in the issue. A document produced by CBI in the special court in Ahmedabad cited IB report which alleged that “Singh took money for not arresting certain accused.

CBI named Mumbai-based bookies Bimal Agrawal and Sonu Jalan as conduits for Singh. They had visited Delhi many times two years ago and with the help of another bookie J K Arora contacted various bookies already figured in the case investigated by the ED under the PMLA. Jalan and Arora were arrested by CBI last year who were granted bail after the the agency failed to file a charge-sheet on time.
Singh is a 2000-batch Indian Revenue Service officer of the Customs and Excise wing. He had moved to his parent cadre as Commissioner, Customs and Excise wing.

The ED’s Ahmedabad unit was probing the Rs 2,000-crore IPL betting scandal, and the Rs 5,000-crore money laundering case against alleged hawala operator Afroz Fatta, in which the suspects allegedly sought favours.

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