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Enforcement Directorate Detects Rs 1.43 Crore In Account Of Mayawati’s Brother, Rs 102 Crore In BSP’s Account
Mayawati in 2009 (PRAKASH SINGH/AFP/Getty Images)
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati came under Enforcement Directorate (ED) scanner on Friday, as the agency detected cash deposits totalling over Rs 104 crore in an account belonging to the party and Rs 1.43 crore in an account belonging to Anand Kumar, Mayawati's brother. The money, according to ED sources, were found in a United Bank of India brank in New Delhi.
Official sources said that Rs 102 crore was deposited in Rs 1,000 notes and about Rs 3 crore in the old Rs 500 notes. "The raid was conducted on the basis of information that over Rs 15-20 crore was being deposited every other day in the branch of the United Bank”, IANS quoted a source as saying.
"From the account of Anand, the brother of BSP supremo Mayawati, we detected around Rs 1.5 crore. A sum of around 19 lakh was deposited in the account after demonetisation," the official said. The agency has sought the complete details about these two accounts from the bank and asked its officials to submit CCTV footage and KYC documents used to open the accounts.
With inputs from IANS
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