Ranchi: Liquor mafia Yogendra Tiwari, with the help of big officials, politicians and Prem Prakash, established a monopoly on liquor trade in the state in the financial year 2021-22. Apart from illegal sand business, he is also related to land and liquor business. He had taken the liquor contract by forming a company in the name of his employees. Yogendra Tiwari had complete control of these companies. He Ed They gathered information related to the activities of the company and even before the raid, they removed important documents related to their business activities from the business premises. Apart from this, 65,000 tonnes of sand was stocked per month in excess of the limit prescribed in the stock license. These facts were revealed by ED while presenting Yogendra Tiwari in the court of PMLA Special Judge Prabhat Kumar Sharma. The court ordered Yogendra Tiwari to be remanded for eight days for questioning. The remand period will start from October 21.
ED told this to the court
The court was informed by the ED that Yogendra Tiwari had opened bank accounts in the name of his employees, in which the ill-gotten cash was deposited. After this, a draft was made and the license fee for wholesale trade of liquor was deposited. The Tiwari brothers have also created business establishments in the names of the employees working in the liquor shop. Investigation found that the bank accounts and companies opened in the name of employees were completely controlled by the Tiwari brothers. Yogendra Tiwari obtained the contract for wholesale trade of liquor in the name of companies formed in the name of himself and his employees in the financial year 2021-22. With the help of top state officials, politicians and power broker Prem Prakash, he had established a monopoly on the liquor trade.
Deleted many important e-mails due to fear of being caught
Investigation found that files related to sand and other business activities were sent to CA Ajay Kesari through e-mail IDs akeshrica@gmail.com and deoghar123@gmail.com. Yogendra Tiwari has deleted some other e-mails including e-mail ID mihijam.123@gmail.co and mihijam.81@gmail.com. During interrogation, he denied having any information regarding the related e-mail. However, during the interrogation in the case, other people associated with the business have admitted that the concerned e-mail is used by Yogendra Tiwari only. Yogendra Tiwari also used the e-mail ID amytsiyogendr1@gmail.com to exchange information related to his business activities. But now he is not giving even this information. On August 23, 12 premises of Yogendra Tiwari were included in the raid at 33 locations. Documents related to his business activities were not found at any of his locations. In view of the possibilities of raid, he had destroyed the documents necessary to prove money laundering.
The court allowed remand for eight days
The court was informed by ED that Yogendra Tiwari is hiding the facts. He needs to be interrogated for further investigation in the matter. Therefore, the court should order him to be given remand for 14 days. After hearing Yogendra Tiwari’s side on the issue of remand, the court ordered him on remand for eight days. Also, his lawyer and family members were allowed to meet him for 30 minutes a day.
ED included 15 FIRs in ECIR
The court was also told by the ED that IIR RNZO/09/2022 was registered on March 31, 2022 to investigate the money laundering case. First of all, four FIRs lodged in police stations were included in this. In this, FIR was included under land grabbing, taking the land known as Rai Bangla with the help of fake documents, illegal mining of sand and Excise Duty Act. On the basis of the facts found during the investigation, 15 more FIRs registered in the police stations of the district were included in this IIR. In these FIRs, other types of allegations have been made including irregularities in liquor trade, sale of sand without invoice, accumulation of sand at the rate of 65,000 tonnes per month more than the limit prescribed in the stock license.