New Delhi, April 16
The government has removed the ED's special director in Mumbai, Vineet Agarwal, for his alleged interference in relieving the agency’s investigating officer in the Nirav Modi money-laundering case without following due procedure, officials said today.
They said the tenure of Agarwal has been cut short by three years and the 1994-batch IPS officer of the Maharashtra cadre has been repatriated to his home state with immediate effect.
The Finance Ministry today issued an order after getting sanction from the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet and subsequently the ED headquarters in Delhi issued the orders relieving Agarwal from the post of special director of the agency in Mumbai, the officials said. — PTI
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