Raid on the premises of former IAS officer in money laundering case, Enforcement Directorate gave information
ED Action: According to sources in the Enforcement Directorate, the agency has raided the premises of retired IAS officer and former DPIIT Secretary Ramesh Abhishek as part of the money laundering investigation.
Tuesday's raid on retired IAS officer and former DPIIT secretary Ramesh Abhishek's property was conducted by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) as part of a money laundering investigation related to the disproportionate assets case being brought against him. Information from official sources was provided.
Abhishek, the former secretary of the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), is the subject of a recent Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) complaint, which forms the basis of the ED case. An IAS officer from the 1982 batch was the target of a raid carried out by the CBI in February.
He retired from DPIIT in 2019. Sources said that ED is searching Abhishek's premises as part of the money laundering investigation.
The CBI, in its FIR, had alleged that Abhishek 'illegally' enriched himself after retirement by receiving 'huge sums' as consultancy fees from private companies whose cases he had dealt with while in service.
CBI and ED have also registered cases against his daughter Vanessa. Abhishek has also been the chairman of the Future Market Commission (FMC) and the CBI had registered a case against him on Lokpal allegations.
The Lokpal had alleged that the father-daughter duo received huge sums of money as professional fees from various companies and institutions for which the former IAS officer had dealt with cases while he was in service.
