ED Seizes Assets of Fake PMO Official in Srinagar. The Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Srinagar Zonal Office, conducted search operations on 19/5/2023 under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002 at 12 locations in Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Morbi, and Mehsana of Gujarat State in relation to an investigation involving one Fake PMO Official Kiranbhai Jagdishbhai Patel and his associates namely Jay Savjibhai Sitapara, Hardik Kishore bhai Chandrana, Vitthalbhai Motibhai Patel, Amit Pandya and Piyush Kantibhai Vasita.
Kiran Jagdishbhai Patel impersonated himself as a Senior Government Official serving in the PMO (Fake PMO Official) as “Dr Kiran Patel, Additional Director, PMO (Strategies & Campaigns)” with criminal intent and a high degree of forgery. The stated individual has fooled credulous people and also purposely influenced people to undertake and omit actions under a well-knit strategy for gaining monetary and material gains by resorting to cheating, forgery, and impersonation.
The ED launched an inquiry based on an FIR filed by Police Station Nishat in Srinagar, J&K, under several sections of the IPC against Kiranbhai Jagdishbhai Patel.
Kiranbhai Patel is a habitual scammer and imposter, according to PMLA investigation, as 06 other FIRs have been registered against him and his family members in Gujarat for defrauding gullible people by posing as a high-ranking officer in the government and displaying his political connections.
Documents connected to immovable properties and extremely damning material were uncovered and confiscated during search operations. Further inquiry into his operations in J&K and other locations is underway.
