{"id":55144,"date":"2024-05-21T06:38:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T06:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/21\/money-laundering-probe-ed-raids-ex-dpiit-secretary-ramesh-abhishek\/"},"modified":"2024-05-21T06:38:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T06:38:05","slug":"money-laundering-probe-ed-raids-ex-dpiit-secretary-ramesh-abhishek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/21\/money-laundering-probe-ed-raids-ex-dpiit-secretary-ramesh-abhishek\/","title":{"rendered":"Money laundering probe: ED raids ex-DPIIT secretary Ramesh Abhishek"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-110292580,imgsize-16068.cms?resize=600,450&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Money laundering probe: ED raids ex-DPIIT secretary Ramesh Abhishek\" title=\"Money laundering probe: ED raids ex-DPIIT secretary Ramesh Abhishek\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-brcount=\"12\">The <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/enforcement-directorate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enforcement Directorate<\/a> on Tuesday raided the premises of <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/retired-ias-officer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retired IAS officer<\/a> and former Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) secretary <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/ramesh-abhishek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ramesh Abhishek<\/a> as part of a <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/disproportionate-assets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disproportionate assets<\/a> linked <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/money-laundering-probe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">money laundering probe<\/a> against him, <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/official-sources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official sources<\/a> said. The ED case stems from a recent <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/cbi-fir\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBI FIR<\/a> registered by the <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/central-bureau-of-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Central Bureau of Investigation<\/a> (CBI) against the 1982-batch officer. He was raided by the CBI in February. <\/p>\n<p><!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=107107653potime:1-->Abhishek retired in 2019 from the DPIIT (erstwhile Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion). <\/p>\n<p>The ED is searching the premises of Abhishek as part of a money laundering investigation, the sources said. <\/p>\n<p>The CBI had alleged in its FIR that Abhishek enriched himself &#8220;illicitly&#8221; after retirement by receiving &#8220;huge amounts&#8221; as consultation fee from private companies whose matters he had dealt while in service. <\/p>\n<p>The CBI and ED have also booked his daughter Vanessa. <\/p>\n<p>The retired officer also held the post of chairman, <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/forward-markets-commission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forward Markets Commission<\/a>, and the CBI case was booked against him on a reference from <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/anti-corruption-ombudsman-lokpal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anti-corruption ombudsman Lokpal<\/a>. The Lokpal has alleged that the father-daughter duo received big amounts as professional fee from various entities and organisations with whom the former IAS officer had official dealings as the secretary or the chairman.<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/money-laundering-probe-ed-raids-ex-dpiit-secretary-ramesh-abhishek\/articleshow\/110292580.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday raided the premises of retired IAS officer and former Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) secretary Ramesh Abhishek as part of a disproportionate assets linked money laundering probe against him, official sources said. The ED case stems from a recent CBI FIR registered by the Central Bureau [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-110292580,imgsize-16068.cms","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[3939,54460,54456,9547,9546,54459,54457,54454,54458,16030,1837,54462,54461,15699,1455,19713,53522,322,2510,5359,54453,54455,34],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55146,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55144\/revisions\/55146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}