Hyderabad: ED team to move court to quiz Jagan

Hyderabad: A team of Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials from Delhi on Tuesday arrived in Hyderabad to approach a local court for questioning YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy who has been arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in a disproportionate assets case.

The team would get in touch with CBI officials probing the case to present its plea in court in Hyderabad for questioning Reddy, ED sources said on Tuesday.

According to sources, the ED has registered separate cases under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) against the Kadapa MP, arrested by CBI on May 27, his associates and some civil servants.

A team of Enforcement Directorate officials from Delhi arrived in Hyderabad to approach a court for questioning Jagan.

The Directorate wants to question 39-year-old Reddy, who was sent to a jail on Monday after being remanded in two weeks of judicial custody by a CBI court, with regard to financial dealings in various firms run by him and other investments he and his companies allegedly made overseas.

The ED team in this regard would comprise officials from Delhi and Hyderabad, the sources said.

The Directorate wants to record his statement under PMLA and also confront him with documents gathered by the agency during its probe till now, they said.

The ED has already accessed documents relating to first charge sheet filed by CBI in connection with the disproportionate assets case registered against Reddy.

The CBI's first charge sheet in the case was against Reddy and 12 others and had accused him of getting investments worth several crores from various business firms into his businesses as part of quid-pro-quo when his father (late Y S Rajasekhara Reddy) was the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh.

The CBI has filed three chargesheets in the case till now.

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