Koda Buys Time Till Dec 4
Failing Madhu Koda’s scheduled appearance at a special vigilance court today, the Vigilance Bureau has sent fresh summons (read December 4) to the former Jharkhand Chief Minister to appear on the controversial case of money laundering worth Rs. 4000 crores, of the year in which Koda is one of the prime accused. “He was to appear today. But he sent a letter stating that he was busy in electioneering. The department immediately issued (fresh) summons to appear before it on December 4,” M.V Rao, Inspector General of Police, Vigilance Dept. stated in a conference.
Among the other accused facing trial before the court along with Koda are Bandhu Tirkey, Kamlesh Singh and Bhanu Pratap Sahi, all of who were ministers in Koda government.
Koda demanded excuse from the public appearance citing campaigning and elections as the reason. While the former minister excused himself from appearing before the Enforcement Departments citing the same reason, he had pleaded innocence moments after his release from the Apollo hospital where he was treated for stomach ache.
Apparently, the IT department has collected strong evidence of Koda’s hawala transactions after raids were carried out at 70 places across eight cities, that is, Delhi, Mumbai, Lucknow, Nasik, Ranchi, Chaibasa and Jamshedpur which include “some documents (that) showed about Rs 100 crore in foreign exchange being sent by hawala transactions to Dubai, Thailand and Malayasia.” The evidences make the Koda, Sanjay Choudhary and Vinod Kumar Sinha side, the last two Koda’s accomplices, considerably weaker. Five more people have been accused of investing illegal money abroad apart from the trio.
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