New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has named the AAP member of the assembly Amanatullah Khan in a charge sheet filed on Tuesday as part of its probe into money laundering concerning alleged fraud in the Delhi Waqf Board.
He was arrested under sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act on September 2. In other charges disclosed before the media by another source close to the case, the charge sheet also contains charges against Miriam Siddiqui. It is expected to be read before the court on the 4th of November.
This charge sheet forms part of a case that began earlier this year having the ED filed a charge sheet in January against Khan’s alleged accomplices, Zeeshan Haider, Daud Nasir, Jawed Imam Siddiqui, among others and Kausar Imam Siddiqui.
The ED has accused Khan of generating significant proceeds out of irregular means, strictly in the Waqf Board recruitment of employees. The publication alleges that he employed the money to buy fixed properties in the names of friends and relatives. The agency alleges that, directing the DWB from 2018 to 2022, Khan established illicit financial operations by leasing properties belonging to the Waqf Board.
According to the charge sheet filed in January, Khan allegedly bribed more than ₹8 crore in cash to buy a 1,200 square yard premises in Jamia Nagar with the help of his aides. The ED’s investigation reveals multiple cases of financial embezzlement, such as misusing the money of DWB and unauthorized leasing of the properties when Khan was DWB’s chairman and an MLA since 2015.
The charge sheet explains how Khan used proxies such as Zeeshan Haider and Daud Nasir to acquire properties and masked actual values, which were proceeds from his criminal activities.
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