New Delhi: The team of the Enforcement Directorate, the Central Investigation Agency Enforcement Directorate, has taken a big action to expose the gang that used to commit fraud in the case of getting the Indian e-visa applications. In this case, he used to make foreigners especially his victims. The ED has started the investigation by registering a case under the FEMA Act. It is said that within the last few months, a lot of cases were being registered in the local police stations. The ED has now taken such a big action by investigating some special inputs by registering a case.
The ED has made it clear that this tour and travels company was carrying out fraud in the name of e-visa. He was not even registered according to the rules and regulations of the Government of India. That is, without registration (registration), this company had already made several dozen people, especially foreigners, in the name of getting e-visas. The ED has made it a case of violation of FEMA law (Foreign Exchange Management Act). The office of this Tour and Travels Company is located in Vikaspuri, Delhi.
Where was the cash of three crores hidden?
The ED team started investigating the matter as soon as they got information about this gang who got E-visa. In its action, the ED raided eight locations in Delhi, Ghaziabad area. During the raids, about three crore 57 lakhs were recovered there. Currently, the name of a person named Yogesh has emerged as the main conspirator in this gang. Yogesh lives in the Najafgarh area of Delhi, with his home Rs.35 million has been recovered. The information that was received about these money was that they were kept hidden in many places including under the drum, inside the bucket, under the bed, in a small house.
According to the sources of the investigating agency, the ED also raided the office and residence of a chartered accountant named Ravi Shankar, from where he got a lot of evidence including important information and documents. In this case, a raid was also conducted on the accused named Mustakim, who lives in Uttam Nagar area. Apart from this, another prime accused living in the Agrapali Society located in Indirapuram area of Ghaziabad was also raided, ED also recovered very important evidence from here.
200 million transactions in Visa forgery case
When the ED team raided and seized many important documents. After that, the investigative team investigated some of the bank accounts in detail, then the eyes of the investigators were opened because they got information about the transactions of about 200 crores from these bank accounts. How many other accused are there in this case, ED team will investigate in detail. According to ED sources, many government officials who got visas early in this case are also under scrutiny, against whom major action may be taken soon.
