ED arrests Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain in alleged money laundering case

The Enforcement Directorate on Monday arrested Delhi minister Satyendar Jain in an alleged money laundering case.

The arrest of the senior AAP leader comes after the Central probe agency had provisionally attached immovable properties worth Rs 4.81 crore belonging to companies allegedly linked to Satyendar Jain and his relatives.

The ED case is based on a 2017 FIR of the Central Bureau of Investigation against Jain under the Prevention of Corruption Act.

The ED had only recently summoned Jain for questioning in the case before questioning him in 2018.

The CBI complaint had said Jain could not explain the source of funds received by four companies in which he was a shareholder. The agency had registered a case against him, his wife and four others on charges of corruption.

Meanwhile, reacting to the development, Delhi Deputy CM took to twitter to slam Narendra Modi government. He said, 'A fake case is being run against Satyendar Jain for 8yrs. ED called many times before & stopped for many yrs in between as they couldn't find anything. Now it's started again as he's HP's poll in-charge... He'll be released in few days as case is bogus.' 

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