New Delhi, August 26
Assets and deposits worth more than Rs 6 crore have been seized in searches against former Punjab minister and Congress leader Bharat Bhushan Ashu and some others as part of a money-laundering case probe linked to an alleged tender scam, the ED said on Saturday.
The raids were launched on August 24 on 25 locations in Punjab. Ashu, a former minister of food and civil supplies in the Punjab government, is currently a working president of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee. The money-laundering investigation stems from a Punjab Vigilance Bureau FIR related to the transportation and labour cartage policy, 2021, of the state government and complaints related to an LIT “scam” regarding allotment of plots to bogus persons, the ED said.
