Illegal mining: ED serves summons on scam accused to record statements under PMLA

HYDERABAD: The Enforcement Directorate(ED) today served summons on nine accused involved in cases pertaining to OMC illegal mining, Emaar scam and Jaganmohan Reddy's assets case to record their statements under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act(PMLA).

A special CBI court while permitting the central agency to record the statements of the accused under PMLA had asked it to serve summons on them before taking their statements.

Accordingly, the ED officials today served the summons on the accused and will record their statements for three days from June 24, sources said.

The ED which has already got access to chargesheets and related documents filed by CBI pertaining to these cases, had last month moved the court to question the accused under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.

However, the accused objected to the questioning by ED saying it was not permitted under the law.

The agency had stated that a prima facie case was made out against them under the provisions of PMLA.

In the Obulapuram Mining Company case, the ED will record statements of suspended IAS officer Y Srilakshmi, OMC's Managing Director B V Srinivas Reddy and former mining director V D Rajagopal.

In the Jagan assets case, the ED will record statements of industrialist Nimmagada Prasad, senior bureaucrat K V Brahmananda Reddy and suspended IAS officer B P Acharya, while in the Emmar scam statements of B P Acharya, industrialist Koneru Prasad, N Sunil Reddy and Emaar's top executive G V Vijay Raghav will be recorded.