New Delhi: The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) raided several locations of former MLA Vinay Shankar Tiwari in a money laundering case linked to an alleged bank fraudulent on Friday.
The probe agency's Lucknow zone in Uttar Pradesh is conducting the search operations under section 17 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in the case of the alleged bank fraud pertaining to Gangotri Enterprises Limited, reports Dynamite News correspondent.
The raids were conducted at 10 premises linked to the accused persons involved in the cases in Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat and Gurugram.
The company is into the construction of roads, operations of toll plazas and govt contracts. The main promoters of the group are Vinay Shankar Tiwari, Rita Tiwari and Ajeet Pandey.
Vinay Shankar Tiwari is the son of former cabinet minister late Harishankar Tiwari. His elder son Bhishma Shankar Tiwari alias Kushal Tiwari has been an MP from Sant Kabir Nagar.
