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 Among the properties attached by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) of fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi, alleged to be the prime conspirator in the Rs. 6,000 crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam, is a New York apartment that he had transferred to his daughter-in-law free of cost in 2015. The agency has stated this in its second supplementary charge sheet filed in the bank-fraud case, of which the ED is probing the money-laundering aspect. The property situated in Manhattan, New York had been bought in 2010 by Choksi from one Robert Liubicic for around Rs. 5.72 crores. Read more : https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/pnb-scam-mehul-choksis-us-flat-attached-by-ed-was-transferred-to-daughter-in-law-in-2015

  The Punjab Vigilance Bureau today arrested former Forest Minister and Congress leader Sadhu Singh Dharamsot in a corruption case related to felling of trees and other illegalities. Former minister Sangat Singh Gilzian, who held the forest portfolio in the Charanjit Singh Channi-led government, has also been named in the FIR. The action came on the basis of purported entries in a diary seized from forest contractor Harmohinder Singh, alias Hummy, who was arrested on June 2 along with Mohali DFO Guramanpreet Singh over illegal construction of farmhouses on forest land. The diary entries showed commission ranging from Rs 100 for lower-rung staff to Rs 500 for the minister was charged for each tree that was felled. Read More : https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/punjab-ex-minister-sadhu-singh-dharamsot-arrested-for-forest-department-scam-401865