ED files chargesheet against Dr Misa Bharti, MP

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Patna : The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on December 23, 2017, filed chargesheet against RJD Rajya Sabha Member Dr Misa Bharti and her husband Shailesh Kumar in a money laundering case in a Delhi court. Dr Misa Bharti is daughter of RJD National President Lalu Prasad.

ED counsel Nitesh Rana filed the chargesheet before the court of Special Judge N K Malhotra. Dr Missa Bharti and Shailesh Kumar were earlier quizzed and their statements recorded by the ED in connection with its probe into the case, according to sources.

The ED had earlier attached a Delhi farmhouse in connection with its money laundering investigation against Dr Bharti and her husband Shailesh Kumar.The farmhouse located at 26, Palam Farms in Delhi’s Bijwasan area was attached provisionally under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). It belongs to Dr Bharti and Kumar and is ‘held in the name of Ms Mishail Packers and Printers Private Limited’, the central probe agency had claimed.

The ED had also conducted raids at this location and few others in July, 2017, as part of its probe against two brothers:, Surendra Kumar Jain and Virendra Jain, and others who have been alleged to have laundered several crore rupees using shell companies. The Jain brothers were arrested by the ED under the PMLA. One of the firms that the arrested duo dealt with was Mishail Printers and Packers Private Limited. It had also arrested a Chartered Accountant Rajesh Agrawal, who mediated and provided a cash amount of Rs 90 lakh to the Jain brothers in advance to invest in Ms Mishail Packers and Printers Pvt Ltd as share premium.