Ranchi: Enforcement Directorate (ED) has registered an FIR in connection with the MNREGA scam in Chaibasa. In this, allegations have been made of taking advance amount for MNREGA schemes and money laundering instead of completing the schemes. A total of 19 engineers have been named and unknown others have been made accused in this case. ED has given this information by filing an affidavit in the High Court in the case of ‘Matloob Imam vs State Government’. It is noteworthy that this matter was being heard in the High Court on Tuesday.
In the affidavit filed by ED in the High Court, it has been said that the investigation was conducted after taking documents related to Chaibasa MNREGA scam from surveillance. It was found that the Deputy Commissioner gave funds to NREP to implement MNREGA schemes. Advance amount was given to junior engineers to complete the projects. During investigation, evidence has been found of money laundering by engineers by taking advance amount and embezzling government funds on the basis of no work or incomplete work.
This includes cases of payments made to workers, irregularities in purchase of materials, non-accounting of advance of Rs 5.76 crore by engineers, vouchers without signatures and violation of MNREGA rules, etc.