CBI raids former ED officer who once ‘hounded’ Andhra CM Jaganmohan Reddy

HYDERABAD: CBI on Tuesday registered a disproportionate assets case against a former Enforcement Directorate official who has probed high-profile cases, like the money laundering case against Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy and Sujana group of companies of former Union minister YS Chowdary, who had joined BJP last month.

Sleuths conducted searches on the properties of Bollineni Srinivasa Gandhi, a superintendent in the central GST anti-evasion wing, Hyderabad, and unearthed illegal assets worth Rs 3.75 crore.

Jagan had approached Prime Minister Narendra Modi two years ago alleging that he was being ‘hounded’ by Gandhi at the instance of the TDP government in AP. He had also alleged cases were registered by ED and CBI out of malice after he left the Congress. When Jagan was the leader of opposition, he lodged a complaint (February 17, 2017) with Modi against the ‘vindictive’ and ‘discriminatory’ action by then ED joint director, S A Uma Shankar Goud and Gandhi, who was an assistant director. Jagan alleged that they acted under ‘coercive’ influence of the TDP government. He had even mentioned how ED had issued summons to his wife Y S Bharathi though she did not face any charges, seven years after chargesheets were filed in the case.


CBI, which launched nationwide searches, conducted raids in Hyderabad and Vijayawada on the properties of Gandhi and filed a case under the Prevention of Corruption Act against him and his wife B Sireesha. In the FIR, CBI said: “Gandhi and his wife amassed assets from 2010 till 2019 disproportionate to his known sources of income. Gandhi acquired most of the movable and immovable assets in his name and in the name of his family members.” CBI is also verifying the bank accounts and lockers of Gandhi