Bangladeshi citizen with expired visa runs biz in Kolkata, HC orders ED probe


Kolkata, Jun 28 (IANS): A division bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Friday, directed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to investigate a case involving a Bangladeshi resident with an expired Indian visa running his business from here.

The division bench of Chief Justice T.S. Sivagnanam and Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharya has directed ED to start the investigation under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) against the Bangladeshi resident, Umashankar Agarwal.

Agarwal has been accused of residing in India with an expired visa, running business illegally and even laundering money outside India.

As per the charges, a company owned by Agarwal had invested huge funds diverted from Bangladesh in several real estate projects in West Bengal. An investigation against Agarwal has already been initiated by Kolkata Police based on the complaints filed against him in this regard.

He was arrested by the city police but was later released on bail by a lower court. Now, as per the court order, the city police will have to hand over the investigation and the case details to the ED officials.

There are allegations that the funds of the company owned by Agarwal were diverted to different cross-border smuggling rackets and even to some underground terrorist groups.

On Friday, the counsel of Agarwal claimed that his client had been falsely implicated in the case.

 

  

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  • Gautam Das, Bangalore

    Fri, Jun 28 2024

    Border security and infiltration is centre’s responsibility, so how people are sneaking into India??????…..Even in Kashmir after BJP’s chest thumping success of abrogation of article 370 claiming no terrorists in Kashmir, everyday there are terror related incidents attacking govt offices and officials. This is incompetency and lack of planning by the centre. If this Hindu from Bangladesh infiltrated into India illegally and India has filed money laundering and terror related case against him then how clean and terror free Hindus who have been granted Indian citizenship by the govt?????.?……

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