On October 10, 2023, the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) conducted search operations at 13 sites in Delhi associated with Amantullah Khan, MLA and his accomplices in accordance with the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA). The searches were undertaken in the case of illegal recruitment of workers in the Delhi Wakf Board and illegal personal gains by unfairly leasing out Wakf Board Properties during Amantullah Khan’s chairmanship of the Delhi Wakf Board from 2018 to 2022.
The ED launched an inquiry based on an FIR filed by the CBI, AC-III, New Delhi, under different sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, and the Indian Penal Code, 1860. The ED is looking into three further FIRs filed by the Delhi Police after the role of Amantullah Khan and his friends was revealed.
An ED investigation found that Amanatullah Khan obtained large sums of money in cash through the aforementioned illicit acts and used this money to purchase numerous immovable properties in Delhi in the name of his partners.
Several damning records and evidence in the form of physical and digital evidence were seized during the search processes at these properties, indicating Amantullah Khan, MLA’s complicity in the money laundering offence. More research is being conducted.
