NEW DELHI: ED Tuesday stated it has connected properties value Rs 4 crore of Congress MLA from Punjab Sukhpal Singh Khaira. The property is allegedly linked to ‘proceeds of crime’ generated from smuggling of medicine.
Throughout searches on his associates, ED had seized 1.8 kg heroin, one .315 bore pistol and two dwell cartridges, two Pakistani SIMs, 24 gold biscuits and one .32 bore Webley Scot revolver. He was earlier additionally questioned for accumulating unlawful funds for AAP when he was with the occasion.
Khaira was arrested in Nov 2021 in a cash laundering case associated to an worldwide drug syndicate. ED has already filed chargesheets towards him and his associates in a PMLA court docket in 2022 the place his affiliate, Gurdev Singh, was additionally made an accused. The costs had been framed by PMLA court docket in Oct 2023.
“Probe revealed Khaira had acquired and utilised proceeds of crime of Rs 3.8 crore generated from the drug syndicate operated by Gurdev Singh and his abroad associates. In lieu of safety/passage supplied for smuggling of medicine by Khaira, Gurdev had made money funds of Rs 3.8 crore to him and funded Khaira’s ballot campaigns,” ED stated.