#Jaipur : After the CBI, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has now registered a criminal complaint in the Rajasthan ambulance scam case and booked former chief minister Ashok Gehlot, Congress leader Sachin Pilot and sons of two former union ministers on money laundering charges.
The agency has taken cognisance of the CBI FIR in this regard to register its case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and has named Karti Chidmabaram and Ravi Krishna, sons of senior Congress leaders P. Chidambaram and Vayalar Ravi, respectively.
The CBI has alleged irregularities in the award of tender of ambulance services in favour of a firm Ziqitza Health Care by deliberately inserting technical specifications and irregularities in implementation of the project, which included excess bills claimed by the firm and the payment allegedly directed to the accused.
The ED suspects that the kickbacks paid in this scam were laundered by some people and used to acquire tainted assets.
The FIR had named Gehlot and “alleged directors” of the company Ziqitza Health Care, Pilot, Karti, Krishna along with its director Sweta Mangal, the then-Health Minister of the State Duru Mirza and the Director, National Rural Health Mission.
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