Mumbai: A special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court on Monday allowed the Enforcement Directorate to question Pune-based stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan and co-accused Kashinath Tapuriah. "Some new facts have come up in the PMLA case and now we want to question them in connection with it," said an ED source adding that the agency will question Khan and Tapuriah in their office on Tuesday and Wednesday....
09:25 PM, Jun 20, 2011
Mumbai: Police on Friday grilled Pune-based stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan for the second consecutive day in connection with a fake passport case and summoned Indian Ambassador to Panama for questioning after his name surfaced in the same case. "Khan was questioned for the second consecutive day in connection with the fake passport case inside the Arthur Road jail, after permission from a sessions court," Joint Police Commissioner (Law...
09:55 PM, Jun 10, 2011
Mumbai: A sessions court on Monday deferred the plea of Enforcement Directorate (ED), seeking permission to question Pune-based stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan for three days in a case of alleged money laundering, till June 17. Khan, who is in judicial custody in connection with money-laundering and tax evasion, is currently admitted to St George Hospital for treatment. In a separate development, the ED told the court that it...
04:40 PM, Jun 07, 2011
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Monday rapped the Maharashtra government and the Enforcement Directorate for their alleged callous approach towards the health of Pune-based stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan, accused of tax evasion and money laundering. Hasan was taken to state-run JJ Hospital last week following direction from the high court on a petition filed by him seeking immediate medical attention for ailments like diabetes, liver cirrhosis and...
06:46 PM, Jun 06, 2011
New Delhi: With less than 24 hours to go Baba Ramdev continues to be adamant about going ahead with his fast against corruption. He kept Cabinet Ministers Kapil Sibal and Subodh Kanth Sahay waiting on Friday while he was addressing a press conference at the Ramlila Grounds. Congress had sent the two ministers to pacify the yoga guru. Several cabinet ministers on Friday cancelled their scheduled visits, including Finance Minister...
01:22 PM, Jun 03, 2011
New Delhi: Former Union ministers and Congress leaders Renuka Choudhary and Jagdish Tytler have denied having any links with tax evader Hasan Ali Khan aide Kashinath Tapuriah after he reportedly named them along with expelled Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Prada in his interrogation. The Congress also promised action against any party member if the person is proven guilty of links to Khan. Tapuriah, who is in custody, reportedly told the...
01:27 PM, May 28, 2011
Mumbai: Hasan ali's co-accused in the money laundering case Kashinath Tapuriah had earlier told Enforcement Directorate (ED) interrogators about Ali's political connections in an interview to CNN-IBN. The 74-year-old Kolkata-based businessman has now claimed Hasan Ali has links to many more politicians - Renuka Choudhary and Suresh Kalmadi from the Congress to former Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Prada. The 12 statements of Tapuriah that have been recorded and several even...
08:05 PM, May 27, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday pulled up the ED for filing a charge sheet against Pune-based stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan in a case of alleged money laundering without informing a high-level committee formed by the government to monitor probe in sensitive cases. The apex court was also anguished that during the last hearing on May 4 when the Enforcement Directorate placed its status report on the...
01:05 PM, May 12, 2011
Mumbai: International arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi had helped Hasan Ali Khan open his account with UBS, Zurich, to use it to launder tainted money and for the Pune stud farm owner CHF (Swiss currency) 28.5 million was "petty cash" to buy a hotel in Switzerland. Khan was acting as a "front man" for Khashoggi, a persona-non-grata in Switzerland, and Pune stud farm owner's UBS account was used to park the...
05:19 PM, May 07, 2011
Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate on Friday chargesheeted Pune-based stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan and his associate Kashinath Tapuriah in a case of alleged money laundering. Khan (53), is alleged to have stashed huge amount of black money abroad including over $8 billion in the Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) in Zurich. Khan was arrested in Mumbai on March 7 after several hours of grilling in the wake of the...
04:57 PM, May 06, 2011
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has suspended the officer in-charge of Hasan Ali probe for allegedly conducting a shoddy probe. ED officer Amrinder Kumar Singh was suspended on Thursday for conducting a "shoddy probe", ED sources said on Friday. The agency will also conduct an inquiry against Singh, they said. The ED is likely to file a charge sheet against Khan and co-accused Kashinath Tapuriah, a Kolkata-based businessman, in a ...
09:38 AM, May 06, 2011
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has suspended the officer in-charge of Hasan Ali probe for allegedly conducting a shoddy probe. ED officer Amrinder Kumar Singh was suspended on Thursday for conducting a "shoddy probe", ED sources said on Friday. The agency will also conduct an inquiry against Singh, they said. The ED is likely to file a charge sheet against Khan and co-accused Kashinath Tapuriah, a Kolkata-based businessman, in a...
09:38 AM, May 06, 2011
Mumbai: A special court on Saturday allowed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to question Pune stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan, accused of stashing away billions of dollars in overseas accounts, for three days even as he filed a fresh bail plea in the same court. ED told the court hearing Prevention of Money Laundering Act cases that it wanted to confront him with certain disclosures made by Congress leader Amlendu...
03:17 PM, Apr 30, 2011
Mumbai: A special court on Saturday allowed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to question Pune stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan, accused of stashing away billions of dollars in overseas accounts, for three days even as he filed a fresh bail plea in the same court. ED told the court hearing Prevention of Money Laundering Act cases that it wanted to confront him with certain disclosures made by Congress leader Amlendu...
02:31 PM, Apr 30, 2011
Mumbai: Refusing to grant bail to Pune-based stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan, accused of stashing away billions of dollars in overseas accounts, the Bombay High Court on Friday asked him to approach the special court handling Prevention of Money Laundering Act cases. Disposing of Khan's bail application, Justice RC Chavan told his lawyer that "why have you come here directly instead of moving the special court as directed by...
06:10 PM, Apr 29, 2011
Mumbai: Patna police on Tuesday approached a court in Mumbai seeking custody of arrested Pune businessman Hasan Ali Khan in connection with a passport forgery case but their plea was deferred till Wednesday. The police presented a production warrant of Khan issued by the chief judicial magistrate of Patna as he is required in the passport forgery case of 1997 in Bihar's capital. Khan's counsel IP Bagadia, however, objected to...
05:25 PM, Apr 26, 2011
Mumbai: A Mumbai sessions court on Tuesday extended till May 7, the judicial custody of alleged money launderer and tax evader Hasan Ali Khan. Principal Sessions Judge Sapna Joshi extended his custody while rejecting his bail plea. Khan was taken into custody by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on March 17 after the Supreme Court cancelled the bail granted to him by a trial court. On March 21, the apex court...
03:22 PM, Apr 26, 2011
Puducherry: An Enforcement Directorate team on Tuesday completed the questioning of Puducherry Lt Governor Iqbal Singh over his recommendation for expeditious issuance of passport to suspected money launderer Hasan Ali Khan. Singh was questioned for two hours on Tuesday, Raj Nivas sources said. The ED team from Mumbai had grilled Singh for five hours yesterday, with the entire proceedings being reportedly video-graphed. Raj Nivas sources were tight-lipped on whether the...
11:59 AM, Apr 26, 2011
Puducherry: Enforcement Directorate on Monday began questioning Puducherry Lt Governor Iqbal Singh over his recommendation for issuing passport expeditiously to Hasan Ali Khan, facing money laundering and tax evasion charges. Official sources said the four-member team from Mumbai began questioning Singh at Raj Nivas, five days after an ED team from Chennai had set the motion in process. The ED's questioning comes after the Prime Minister's Office gave a green...
06:30 PM, Apr 25, 2011
Puducherry: Enforcement Directorate on Monday began questioning Puducherry Lt Governor Iqbal Singh over his recommendation for issuing passport expeditiously to Hasan Ali Khan, facing money laundering and tax evasion charges. Official sources said the four-member team from Mumbai began questioning Singh at Raj Nivas, five days after an ED team from Chennai had set the motion in process. The ED's questioning comes after the Prime Minister's Office gave a green...
03:46 PM, Apr 25, 2011
