ED filed Complaint against Soumyendra Nath Banerjee in a Disproportionate Asset Case. ED has filed a Prosecution Complaint (PC) on 29.09.2022 against Soumyendra Nath Banerjee, the then “Deputy Director General, New Technology, Department of Telecommunications (DoT), Kolkata” and others in front of the special court at Calcutta under PMLA 2002. It was involved in distortion of asset case.
As per the investigation, ED has initiated a complaint against Soumyendra Nath Banerjee on 29.9.2022.
Investigation of Soumyendra Nath Banerjee case
ED initiated AML investigation on the basis of FIR registered by CBI, ACB, Kolkata for offences punishable under Section 109 of IPC and Section 13(2) read with Section 13(1)(e) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. As per the Charge-sheet filed by CBI, ACB, Kolkata, Shri Soumyendra Nath Banerjee had allegedly amassed huge assets beyond his known source of income and it was in the disproportionate of assets that amounted to Rs. 7.58 crore that is surplus to the known source of income.
Investigation by ED revealed that Soumyendra Nath Banerjee during the period from 01.04.2005 to 01.06.2013, while being posted and functioning in different capacities and different posts under Ministry of Telecommunication.
The Government of India took an major initiative of collecting large amount of money. The money was collected through the different corrupt practices. The cash that was collected were kept as share allotment money. The allotment money received was an ill-gotten money. The ill gotten money that is collected has been generated from purchasing the shares that were generated in his HUF Family.
Further this illegal money is used as an investment in the other country. The properties worth Rs. 6.32 Crore were provisionally attached by the ED during the course of its investigation (which were subsequently confirmed by the Ld. Adjudication Authority, PMLA).
Further investigation in the said case is in progress
