The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday questioned Delhi Minister Satyendar Jain’s wife Poonam Jain in connection with an alleged money laundering case.
Poonam Jain deposed before the investigators after 11 am at the ED’s headquarters here, a development noticed almost two months after her husband, Satyendar Jain was arrested by the agency in the same case on 30 May. The federal agency on July 1, also arrested two associates of Satyendar Jain—Ankush Jain and Vaibhav Jain—following their questioning.
Those on the ED radar in the case are Ankush Jain, Vaibhav Jain, Naveen Jain and Siddharth Jain (Directors of Ram Prakash Jewellers Pvt Ltd), G.S. Matharoo (Chairman of Lala Sher Singh Jivan Vigyan Trust which runs Prudence Group of Schools), Yogesh Kumar Jain (Director in Ram Prakash Jewellers Pvt Ltd), father-in-law of Ankush Jain and Lala Sher Singh Jivan Vigyan Trust are also on ED radar for assisting Satyendar Jain, the ED informed.
In the case, the ED on 6 June had seized cash worth Rs 2.85 crore and 133 gold coins weighing 1.80 kg from Satyendra Jain’s aides during its day-long raid conducted at various places across Delhi and the National Capital Region. The agency had also seized various incriminating documents and digital records during these raids.
The ED then said that the total movable assets were seized from an “unexplained source” and were “found to be secreted” in the raided premises. The assets were seized during a search operation carried out under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002 at the premises of Satyendar Jain, his wife Poonam, and his accomplices and other persons who had either directly or indirectly assisted him or participated in the processes of money laundering.