The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday examined earlier Indian cricket group captain and Congress chief Mohammed Azharuddin for over 9 hours in a money laundering scenario linked to declared financial abnormalities within the Hyderabad Cricket Association, predominant sources said.
The authorities agency taped his declaration underneath the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), they said.
The 61-year-old earlier MP was preliminary requested to depose previous to the ED on October 3 nevertheless he appeared for deferment of the notification and requested a recent day. The agency consequently launched him recent summons to indicate up on October 8.
Dressed in a white kurta-pyjama, Azharuddin acquired to the ED office on Fateh Maidan Road round 11 am. He left the ED office after 9 pm.
He knowledgeable press reporters whereas leaving that he was “cooperating” with the examination.
“All the allegations which have been made were baseless, frivolous and done with a malafide intention. Beyond that I have nothing more to say. I don`t want to go into the details…,” he said.
The probe pertains to claimed financial abnormalities within the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA). The ED had truly carried out searches in regards to the abnormalities in November in 2015.
Azharuddin’s obligation all through his interval because the HCA head of state is underneath the scanner of the agency, the sources had truly said.
The earlier Indian captain had truly unsuccessfully opposed the Telangana Assembly surveys held in 2015.
Following the enrollment of a scenario in regards to the claimed abnormalities by the Telangana Police in 2015, he had truly said that the claims levelled versus him have been “false” and “motivated” and it was “just a stunt” drawn by his opponents to spoil his on-line repute.
The money laundering scenario originates from 3 FIRs and price sheets submitted by the Telangana Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) about claimed felony misappropriation of funds of the HCA to the track of Rs 20 crore.
One such authorities FIR was signed up on the problem of the HCA Chief Executive Officer Suneel Kante Bose after a forensic audit (performing document) found that particular offers completed in behalf of the HCA with third-party suppliers have been found to be “not genuine” which the offers have been completed in a means “detrimental” to the speed of curiosity of the group.
The authorities price sheets have “allegations of serious irregularities in the procurement of DG sets, firefighting systems and canopies for the Rajiv Gandhi Cricket Stadium constructed in Uppal, Hyderabad,” the ED had beforehand said in a declaration.
According to the price sheets, no matter goal dates, a variety of jobs have been postponed terribly, inflicting intensified bills and price range plan enhancements and equal losses to the HCA.
It was found that the office holders of the HCA, together with its after that assistant, head of state and vice-president and others, in collusion with private celebrations, “arbitrarily” obtained completely different tenders and features allotted to preferred distributors/contractors at higher than market costs with out complying with right tender procedures and generally additionally previous to the bill of quotes, the agency had truly declared.
Advance repayments have been made to a number of specialists nevertheless no job was completed by them, it included.
The ED had truly invaded the properties of earlier office holders of the HCA, consisting of earlier vice head of state and cricketer Shivlal Yadav, Congress MLA and ex-HCA head of state Gaddam Vinod, earlier HCA assistant Arshad Ayub apart from the office of a agency known as S SConsultants Pvt Ltd. and the property properties of its dealing with supervisor Satyanarayana.
The ED had said its raids carried out in 2015 brought on the seizure of digital instruments, “incriminating” recordsdata and “unaccounted” money cash of Rs 10.39 lakh.
One of the monitorings made within the forensic document was that “Mohammad Azharuddin, the then President of the Association in the 9th Apex Council meeting held on March 3, 2021 had sought to take up discussions regarding firefighting equipment. However, subsequently without assigning any reasons, the tender was not allotted to any of the bidders. Thereafter, the HCA had floated a second tender for the same work.” Azharuddin is a Padma Shri and Arjuna Award recipient. He began his political innings with a win from Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad Lok Sabha seat in 2009. He is moreover a functioning head of state of the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC).
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