Summary:
Chandigarh, Jan 20 (PTI) Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Raghav Chadha on Thursday asked Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi to explain huge sums of cash recovered in raids by the ED from premises linked to his relative.
Chadha, who is AAP"s Punjab co-in-charge, alleged that Channi"s nephew had amassed “crores” of rupees and other assets in the past three-four months.
The ED on Wednesday had said seized cash amounting to over Rs 10 crore, including about Rs 8 crore from a relative of Channi, during raids conducted in connection with an anti-money laundering investigation against illegal sand-mining operations in Punjab.
In a statement, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had said "incriminating" documents related to "illegal" sand mining and property transactions, mobile phones, gold worth more than Rs 21 lakh, and a Rolex watch worth Rs 12 lakh were also seized during the searches that ended on Wednesday.
“From where did this money come,” Chadha said, talking to reporters in Mohali.
“It is said that Channi"s nephew did not have this much money four months back,” he said.