Ranchi: Vishal Chaudhary gave money to officers and minister to manage the tender of ‘Jharkhand Skill Development Scheme’. Its details are recorded in the documents and computers found during raids at his premises. Vishal had taken this amount from Vinayaka Fundamental Research and Education Society (VFRES). This company used to work on ‘Skill Development Scheme’ in collaboration with Vishal’s company. Along with huge cash transactions between these two companies, huge differences have been found in the details of total deposits, cash deposits and income tax returns in the accounts of Vishal Chaudhary and Shweta Chaudhary. While examining the documents recovered from Vishal’s premises, ED found that his company ‘Frontline Global Services’ had participated in the tender of ‘Skill Development Scheme’ in collaboration with ‘Vinayaka Fundamental Research and Education Society’. Under the scheme, quality training is given to people aged 18-35 years. After finalizing the tender, Jharkhand Skill Development Mission Society (JSGMS) had entrusted the work of skill development training to Vishal’s company for three years (from November 18, 2016 to March 31, 2019) at a cost of Rs 2.97 crore.
The entire expenditure of managing the tender is recorded in the diary: In the diary found from Vishal’s house, details of the expenditure incurred for managing the tender of Skill Development Scheme are written. It is recorded in the diary that out of Rs 30 lakh, he spent Rs 10 lakh in JSDMS. DSO Hazaribagh was given Rs 65 thousand and DSO Ranchi was given Rs 80 thousand in the first phase. Another Rs 3.27 lakh has to be paid to the society.
Investigation found that the work of skill development scheme is being run by Vinayaka Fundamental from its front line office in Argora. Documents recovered from Vishal’s house revealed that Tapish Chaudhary of Vinayaka Fundamental gave Rs 2.85 crore in cash, but according to Front Line Group Services (FGS), only Rs 63.5 lakh was mentioned.
The details of the expenses given to the minister are recorded in the computer:
During the investigation of Vishal Chaudhary’s computer, details of transactions were written in an Excel sheet titled ‘Hisab’. There is mention of receiving Rs 15 lakh from Vinayaka Fundamental on January 10, 2022. Out of this amount, expenditure of Rs 12 lakh has been shown to be given to the minister and expenditure of Rs 3 lakh has been shown for other purposes. In the excel sheet itself, there is mention of getting Rs 25 lakh as first installment and Rs 10 lakh as second installment on January 12, 2022. It is also mentioned in the details of the transaction that the first installment of Rs 25 lakh was taken from Morhabadi Manya Palace. There were four thousand rupees less in this. The total amount received in both the installments was handed over to some Maliya Ma’am in Ashok Nagar on 14 January 2022.
Huge amount of cash deposited in bank accounts:
During investigation, ED found that huge cash amount has been deposited in the bank accounts of Vishal Chaudhary, Shweta Singh Chaudhary and employee Amar Nath Sharma. After this, ED matched the amount deposited in the accounts of Vishal Chaudhary, Shweta Singh Chaudhary, Nilofar Ara, Malia Anwar and the income tax returns. In the investigation from the financial year 2016-17 to the financial year 2022-23, a total of Rs 1.66 crore was deposited in the account of Vishal Chaudhary. Out of this, Rs 83.62 lakh was deposited in cash, but Vishal had shown an income of only Rs 68.08 lakh in his income tax return during this entire period.
A total of Rs 75.38 lakh was deposited in Shweta Chaudhary’s account. Out of this, Rs 21.11 lakh was deposited in cash, but Shweta’s income tax return mentions only Rs 62.95 lakh. During the investigation, the case of depositing cash in the bank accounts of siblings of Nilofar Ara and Malia Anwar (Sharia Anwar, Simone Anwar, Sadhi Anwar) was also detected.
Cash deposited in the accounts of people associated with Vishal (in lakhs)
Account Holder Rashi Veer Chaudhary 4.41 Sharia Anwar 8.10 Simran Anwar 2.03 Sadaf Anwar 0.81 Monica Tiru 5.78 Poonam Kumari 0.99 Sarojini Horo 5.29 Usha Devi 5.64 Mariam Aind 5.81
Vishal Chaudhary 83.62 166.35 68.08
Shweta Chaudhary 21.11 75.38 62.95
Triveni Chaudhary 4.61 4.61 21.64
Veena Chaudhary 36.25 43.97 27.76