Money Laundering Case: ED Files Chargesheet Against Misa Bharti’s CA

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday filed a chargesheet against Rashtriya Janata Dal ( RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav's daughter Misa Bharti's Chartered Accountant (CA) Rajesh Agarwal in connection with a Rs 8,000 crore money laundering case.

Bharti was questioned for around eight hours on 11 July by the ED officials in connection with the case. She was reportedly asked to bring along certain documents, including those related to her personal finances. She was probed about her links with Agarwal. Her husband Shailesh too was grilled by the ED.

On 8 July, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had raided three Delhi premises of Bharti, Shailesh and a firm allegedly linked to them in the money laundering probe involving shell companies.

The ED is the third central probing body investigating alleged financial irregularities by Lalu Prasad's family after the CBI and the Income Tax department, which recently attached Benami assets worth about Rs 180 crore.

The ED had arrested Agarwal on 20 March for providing accommodation entries of about Rs 60 lakh to a firm owned by Bharti and her husband. (ANI)