The Enforcement Directorate has seized an inland vessel worth ₹30 crore in connection with a money laundering probe, linked to an illegal mining and extortion racket in Jharkhand.
The vessel named M.V. Infralink-III, was found during a search conducted on July 26. It was being operated illegally from Sukargarh Ghat in Sahebganj, at the behest of Rajesh Yadav, and in collusion with Pankaj Mishra, the MLA representative of Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, who was arrested earlier this month, according to the agency.
The vessel was being used for transporting the illegally mined stone chips and stone boulders. “A First Information Report (FIR) has been registered against its owner at the Muffasil police station under various provisions of the Bengal Ferries Act, 1885, and the Indian Penal Code,” said an official.
