Chennai: Officials of Tamil Nadu Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption searched the office of Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Madurai after arresting an officer of the central agency for allegedly extorting Rs 20 lakh from a state government employee, sources said on Saturday. #UPDATE | Tamil Nadu Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) officials leave from the ED sub-zonal office in Madurai after conducting searches here in connection with the case involving ED officer Ankit Tiwari, who was caught red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs… https://t. co/6Ygz1Vellq pic.
twitter. com/nRmpsAye73 #WATCH | Tamil Nadu Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) continue searches at the ED sub-zonal office in Madurai in connection with the case involving ED officer Ankit Tiwari. pic.
twitter. com/7W4odOoNgo #WATCH | Tamil Nadu Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) officials continue the searches at the ED sub-zonal office in Madurai in connection with the case involving ED officer Ankit Tiwari. ED officer Ankit Tiwari was caught red-handed while accepting a bribe of… pic.
twitter. com/UDwQUCtCJX DVAC officials arrested ED officer Ankit Tiwari In an unprecedented action, the DVAC officials arrested Ankit Tiwari on charges of demanding and accepting bribes from a government doctor, who is an accused in a disproportionate assets case. #WATCH | Tamil Nadu Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) officials continue the searches at the ED sub-zonal office in Madurai in connection with the case involving ED officer Ankit Tiwari.
pic. twitter. com/twIR3WHxSz #WATCH | Tamil Nadu | ED officer Ankit Tiwari taken from the DVAC office to be produced before a judicial magistrate in Dindigul.
He was caught red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 20 lakhs from a doctor in Dindigul. He along with his team of ED officers had been… pic. twitter.
com/F8JTReQnQq Sleuths seized Rs 20 lakh cash from his car The sleuths seized Rs 20 lakh cash from his car, which he had allegedly received as a bribe. The ED official was then taken to the V&AC office in Dindigul for interrogation. Tamil Nadu Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) arrested ED official Ankit Tiwari in a bribery case under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
Ankit Tiwari was caught after he had received Rs 20 lakhs as a bribe from the complainant. Investigation is being done to… pic. twitter.
com/dwbs0IV1YR They later conducted searches at the ED’s Madurai office and his residence late on Friday and reportedly seized several documents and later sent the officer to a 14-day judicial custody. This is the first time in Tamil Nadu that an officer of ED has been arrested. Complaint received from Dr Suresh Babu of Dindigul Following a complaint received from Dr Suresh Babu of Dindigul, the V&AC had registered a case against the ED official on Thursday.
As per the complainant, he worked as Deputy Superintendent in the Government Hospital in Dindigul. A case of accumulating assets disproportionate to his known sources of income was booked against him in 2018. He alleged that Tiwari had contacted him a few months ago and demanded a bribe of Rs 3 crore to relieve him of the charges.
As the doctor refused to pay the huge money, Tiwari negotiated with him to part with Rs 51 lakh. Doctor lodged a complaint with the V&AC The complainant said on November 1 he had handed over Rs 20 lakh in cash to Tiwari. Since, the ED officer allegedly started harassing him for the remaining Rs 31 lakh, the doctor lodged a complaint with the V&AC.
Trap laid The agency laid a trap by asking Babu to hand over Rs 20 lakh in cash to Tiwari. After the ED officer received the cash from Babu at Thomiarpuram on Dindigul-Madurai highway, a team of V&AC officials chased Tiwari’s car, intercepted him at the Kodaikanal Road Toll Collection Plaza and seized the cash. The ED official’s arrest came amid the face-off between the state government and ED over the latter’s summons to five district collectors in connection with a probe into alleged money laundering linked to illegal sand mining.
Early this week, the High Court stayed the summons for three weeks. .
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