ED arrests Gujarat scribe in money laundering case

The Enforcement Directorate has arrested Gujarat-based journalist Mahesh Prabhudan Langa under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, officials said on Tuesday.

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Langa, a correspondent of an English daily in Gujarat, was produced before a special court in Ahmedabad, which granted the probe agency his custody till February 28, the officials said.

The money laundering case against Langa stems from two FIRs filed by the Ahmedabad police on charges of committing fraud, criminal misappropriation, criminal breach of trust, cheating and causing wrongful loss of lakhs of rupees to certain people.

Langa’s lawyer had denied the charges made against him. He was earlier arrested by the Gujarat Police. The reporter, as per the ED, was found to have engaged in multiple “fraudulent” financial transactions involving large sums of money.