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Raipur, Jan 6: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has named Bhupesh Baghel, the former chief minister of Chhattisgarh, in a supplementary chargesheet that was filed on January 1, 2024.
Allegations in the chargesheet pertain to taking bribery from the Mahadev App promoters totalling roughly Rs 508 crore.
According to the chargesheet filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), Subham Soni, the promoter of Mahadev App and one of the accused, disclosed significant information during the course of the investigation.
The names of numerous other accused parties are listed in the chargesheet, including Asim Das, Bhim Singh Yadav, Rohit Gulati, Subham Soni and Anil Kumar Agrawal, also known as Atul Agrawal.
The supplementary chargesheet was filed on January 1, 2024, before the Raipur, Chhattisgarh special court for PMLA cases under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
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Soni directed Das to deliver money to Baghel
As per the statement provided to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) by Asim Das, he revealed that Subham Soni, a key figure in Mahadev Online Book, directed him to deliver a considerable sum of cash to Bhupesh Baghel who was the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh at the time.
According to the chargesheet, Das was summoned to Dubai by Soni on October 25, 2023, and was handed a sum of money intended for delivery to Baghel. The allegations are further supported by a voicemail that was found on Das’s phone, in which Soni gives him instructions to give Baghel between 8 and 10 crore rupees when he returns to India.
According to the supplementary chargesheet, on November 2, 2023, the Enforcement Directorate intercepted Asim Das and confiscated cash totalling Rs 5.39 crore from his premises.
As per statements from the Enforcement Directorate, the cash, reportedly being transported by Mahadev App promoters, was intended for a specific politician in Chhattisgarh. Das confessed that Subham Soni had given him the assignment to deliver the money to Bhupesh Baghel.
Conduit Bhim Singh Yadav
Email exchanges from Subham Soni and testimony from other witnesses, such as Chandrabhushan Verma, suggest that Bhim Singh Yadav served as a conduit for Mahadev Online Book when it came to the payment of “liaisoning money.”
Prior to this, Chandrabhushan Verma revealed in his statement recorded under section 50 of PMLA, 2002, that Bhim Singh Yadav was involved in the delivery of the “liaisoning money”.
