Tamil Nadu minister V Senthil Balaji appeared before a Chennai court on Friday via videoconferencing. The local court granted the Enforcement Directorate (ED) 8 days custody of the Tamil Nadu Minister, who was arrested under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) by the agency on 14 June.
Senthil Balaji's bail plea was rejected by the local court. Balaji's counsel A Saravanan said the court has made it clear to the ED that Balaji cannot be shifted out of the hospital where he is currently undergoing treatment for heart-related issue.
Meanwhile, the ED has also summoned Senthil Balaji's brother R V Ashok Kumar, personal assistant B Shanmugam and others for questioning next week in an alleged cash-for-jobs linked money laundering case.
The two, along with some other accused and a woman who is suspected to be linked to an alleged 'benami' land deal related to the minister, have been called for recording their statements under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), they said.
They have been asked to depose before the agency at its office here on different dates next week.
The court was informed that Senthil Balaji was set to undergo bypass surgery in "3-5 days," and certain drugs he has been prescribed have been stopped to facilitate the procedure.
Senthil Balaji money laundering case
Senthil Balaji was arrested by the ED on Wednesday in connection with a cash for jobs scam dating back to the earlier Jayalalithaa-led AIADMK regime where he was transport minister.
The ED had earlier claimed that Balaji allegedly "misused" his office for illegal gratification and "engineered" a job racket scam in the state's transport undertakings during 2014-15 with purported kickbacks paid by candidates through his associates who included Kumar and Shanmugam.
Calling the minister the "prime suspect" in the cash-for-jobs case, the federal probe agency also stated in its custody papers that alleged unaccounted cash deposits worth about ₹1.60 crore were made in the bank accounts of Balaji and his wife.
It is alleged that he along with Kumar, Shanmugam and another person, identified as M Karthikeyan, "conspired" with the managing directors of all state transport undertakings and other officers of transport corporations to obtain "illegal gratification" from candidates to recruit them as drivers, conductors, junior assistants, junior engineer and assistant engineer in the transport corporation during 2014-15.
The "entire appointment process was made in a fraudulent and dishonest manner and only in accordance with the lists provided by Shanmugam, R V Ashok Kumar, M Karthikeyan, as per the directions of Balaji", the ED had alleged.
These four are alleged to have collected money from the candidates "on behalf of Balaji" for issuing appointment orders. It is also alleged that the candidates who paid the money "neither got appointment orders nor their money back".
The ED filed a case of money laundering in September 2021 to probe these allegations and its complaint is based on three Tamil Nadu Police FIRs filed during 2018 and some later years by some of those who failed to get the promised jobs.
(With PTI inputs)
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Updated: 16 Jun 2023, 08:25 PM IST
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