Bengaluru: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday led look at properties related with Congress MLA Zameer Ahmed Khan and previous MLA Roshan Baig regarding the I-Monetary Advisor (IMA) Ponzi trick case. The IMA trick relates to ₹4,000 crore gathered by IMA Group from more than 100,000 artless financial backers for the sake of giving appealing profits from venture. The assaults are in progress in different areas in Bengaluru since Thursday morning.
As per authorities up to date of the turns of events, the quests are being directed by officials from New Delhi. Up until now, look are in progress at the two homes of Baig in Shivajinagar, and at the Chamarajpet home of Khan, aside from the workplaces of National Travels, a firm he claims.
The Congress blamed the decision BJP for utilizing the focal organizations to target heads of Opposition parties. A few of Khan’s allies and Congress laborers wearing dark groups assembled close to Khan’s home where searches are on and yelled mottos blaming the decision BJP for focusing on party pioneers and addressed regarding why the focal organizations were not examining saffron party pioneers purportedly engaged with defilement.
“The ED strike on previous pastor Zameer Ahmed Khan is politically roused and an endeavor by BJP to scare pioneers from Opposition parties. I unequivocally denounce this undemocratic demonstration of BJP to utilize establishments like ED, IT, and so forth,” senior Congress pioneer and Leader of Opposition in the State Assembly Siddaramaiah said.
Denouncing the ventures, state Congress boss D K Shivakumar said it is an endeavor to disturb Khan, who has the ability to confront it lawfully, as he blamed the focal office for separation by focusing on just Opposition pioneers.
“Around one-and-a-half to two years prior, the ED had given him (Khan) notice and addressed him and he had disclosed to me that he had addressed every one of the inquiries. When such is the circumstance, it is my inclination that attacks were not needed. Presumably this is to irritate him, however I’m sure that he will tell the truth inside the system of law,” he said.
Addressing concerning why focal offices were not examining charges against BJP pioneers, Shivakumar guaranteed things are being done to their (BJP chiefs) own advantage. “Is everybody in the BJP clean? Are their organizations and exchange pure…there is a great deal of separation (by focal offices),” he claimed.
Reacting to the charge, boss pastor Basavaraj Bommai said that claims are the standard motto of Congress party pioneers to cover their offenses. “I’m neither an ED nor IT official to answer this. Congress individuals have become specialists on ED and IT, they have insight. Who are they (the Congress) inquire as to why somebody was assaulted? Whatever assaults have occurred today (Thursday) will be examined in the court. They lead attacks just dependent on important data,” he said.
On April 27, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had documented a valuable charge sheet against previous Karnataka serve Baig regarding the IMA Ponzi trick case. Baig was the pastor for metropolitan advancement in the Congress-drove state government somewhere in the range of 2014 and 2018. The CBI named the then MD of IMA Group, Mohammed Mansoor Khan, the organization, Baig’s organization Daanish Publications, and others in the charge sheet.
“It was claimed that the blamed previous pastor got a few crores for rupees from IMA assets for political decision use. It was additionally asserted that the charged was likewise using the said assets for everyday consumption, including pay rates of representatives of his firm. It was additionally affirmed that the denounced has spent the assets for different social and social exercises in his body electorate to expand his prominence,” read a proclamation from CBI.
While Zameer Ahmed Khan was addressed by ED and different offices in regards to his property exchange with IMA originator Mohammed Mansoor Khan, he has not been charged by any office till date.
IMA was a speculation banking organization run by Mohammed Mansoor Khan, who guaranteed it was a Sharia-consistent activity run on Islamic standards, which took enormous stores principally from individuals from the Muslim people group. At the point when IMA quit delivering profits in March 2019, financial backers held up grievances with the police, and in June 2019, the Karnataka government set up a SIT to research the in excess of 51,500 objections that had been recorded by financial backers.
