Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Sanjay Singh has stated on a microblogging website that ‘Preparations are being made by the Enforcement Directorate to arrest MLA Amanatullah Khan.’
Without giving any more details, Sanjay Singh stated the agency was fabricating a baseless case against MLA Amanatulah Khan. The AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan on Thursday showed up before the Enforcement Directorate for questioning in a money laundering case linked to alleged irregularities in Delhi Waqf Board, according to officials.
The deposition of the 50-year-old legislator from the Okhla assembly seat comes after the Supreme Court last week refused to entertain his anticipatory bail application in the case related to alleged irregularities in the Delhi Waqf Board during his chairmanship. The Apex Court asked him to join the investigation on the 18th of April.
Speaking to reporters before coming to the ED Office, Khan claimed he followed the rules when he was the chairman of the Waqf Board and did everything after taking a legal opinion as per the new Act that came in 2013, he stated. The money laundering case against Khan comes from the CBI and three Delhi Police complaints.
The ED, who did on the premises of the legislator, has claimed Khan acquired huge proceeds of crime in cash through illegal recruitment of staff in Delhi Waqf Board and invested those to purchase immovable assets in the name of his associates. The ED had alleged in a statement that illegal recruitment of the staff took place in the Waqf Board, and illegal personal gains were mde by leasing Waqf Board properties during Khan’s chairmanship during 2018 and 2022.
Khan, the ED stated “”acquired huge proceeds of crime out of the said criminal activities in cash and this cash amount was invested in purchase of various immovable properties in Delhi in the name of his associates.”
