TIL Desk/National/Chandigarh/ The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday said it has seized cash amounting to over Rs 10 crore, including about Rs 8 crore from a relative of Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, during raids conducted in connection with an anti-money laundering investigation against illegal sand-mining operations in the poll-bound state.
In a statement, the ED said ‘incriminating’ documents related to ‘illegal’ sand mining and property transactions, mobile phones, gold worth more than Rs 21 lakh and a Rolex watch worth Rs 12 lakh were also seized during the searches that ended on Wednesday.
Agency sources also refuted allegations of high-handedness during the raids, saying the action launched on Tuesday was undertaken by following “due legal procedures and no personal comments or individual threats were made”.
They said most of the documents related to the sand-mining business and about Rs 8 crore cash were seized from the premises linked to Bhupinder Singh alias Honey, a nephew of Channi. Cash amounting to about Rs 2 crore was seized from the premises linked to a a man identified as Sandeep Kumar, the sources said.
