ED files chargesheet against AAP’s Satyendar Jain, 13 others in DJB scam

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a chargesheet against former Delhi Minister and AAP leader Satyendar Kumar Jain and 13 others in connection with a corruption case involving the award of four tenders related to sewage treatment plants (STPs) of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB), the agency said on Monday.

The probe agency has also named Udit Prakash Rai, then CEO of Delhi Jal Board, Ajay Gupta, then Member of DJB, Satish Chandra Vashishth, then Chief Engineer of DJB, and other private persons under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) 2002.

The agency initiated complaint on the basis of an FIR registered by the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) against Euroteck Environmental Private Limited (EEPL) and others under various sections of the IPC and the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, alleging a scam in the DJB in the name of augmentation and upgrade of existing 10 STPs at Pappankalan, Nilothi, Najafgarh, Keshopur, Coronation Pillar, Narela, Rohini, and Kondli among others.

It was revealed that Rajakumar Kurra, Managing Director of EEPL, got the terms and conditions of the DJB tender manipulated through officials of the Jal Board and private persons Nagendra Yadav and others, making the tender restrictive to the usage of ‘IFAS technology with fixed media’ only and thereby enabling the EEPL to become the sole supplier of the said technology in the tender, stated a statement from the ED.

As per findings of investigation, Kurra and his associates paid an illegal commission and bribe of Rs 6.73 crore through banking channels and in cash, which is nothing but proceeds of crime under the PMLA.

The said the illegal commission and bribe was paid through banking transaction by issuing bogus invoices, advances to obfuscate the payments and also through cash by hawala channels. These acts resulted in undue profits of Rs 9.96 crore accruing to the EEPL, which are also proceeds of crime under PMLA, the statement added.

The investigation has concluded that Jain, the then Minister, Rai, Gupta, Vashishth, Euroteck Environmental Pvt Ltd, Kurra, Chauhan, Yadav and other accused persons are involved or have assisted in generation, acquisition, concealment, possession and use of total proceeds of crime to the tune of Rs 17.70 crore and thus committed offence of money laundering, the ED said.

In this case, the agency has also provisionally attached movable and immovable properties amounting to Rs 15.36 crore of various persons.