Contractor’s Rs 42 crore assets seized

LUDHIANA: Jalandhar-based

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unit of the enforcement directorate (ED) has issued orders to attach Rs 42 crore assets of a contractor named Gurinder Singh whom the vigilance bureau (VB) had booked on corruption charges in the 2017 multi-crore-rupee irrigation scam of Shiromani Akali Dal’s last term in power.

The ED is tightlipped over the development but sources in the agency have confirmed the development. It is part of a money-laundering investigation linked to the corruption scandal. The ED found proceeds of crime worth Rs about 42 crore in the bank accounts of Gurinder Singh and this is the amoung it has attached.

Sources claimed that the other immovable and movable assets of Gurinder Singh were also under scrutiny and some government officials and political executives of the former Punjab government might be involved in the scam


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