Another charge-sheet against Lalu Prasad’s daughter in money laundering case

NEW DELHI (INDIA): The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed another supplementary charge-sheet against Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad’s daughter Misa Bharti, her husband Shailesh Kumar and others in Delhi’s Patiala House Court in connection with alleged Rs. 8000 crore money laundering case.nnThe agency had filed this supplementary charge-sheet before the court on January 4.nnThe ED was pulled up by the court for filing supplementary charge-sheet again,nn”By filing supplementary charge-sheet whole trail getting disturbed,” the court said.nnThe court has fixed February 5 as the next dare of hearing for cognisance in the matter.nnThe ED on December 23 filed a charge-sheet against Misa Bharti, her husband Shailesh Kumar and others in Delhi’s Patiala House Court in connection with the case.nnThe Income Tax (I-T) department had earlier issued a final attachment order against Bharti and her husband in the benami assets case.nnEarlier on July 21, the ED had filed a charge-sheet against Bharti’s Chartered Accountant (CA) Rajesh Agarwal in connection with a Rs 8,000 crore money laundering case.nnOn July 11, Bharti was questioned for around eight hours by the ED officials in connection with the case.nnShe was reportedly asked to bring along certain documents, including those related to her personal finances.nnMisa’s husband Shailesh Kumar was also grilled by the ED in the case.nnOn July 8, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) raided three Delhi premises of Bharti, her husband and a firm allegedly linked to them in the money laundering probe involving shell companies.nnThe ED is the third central probing body investigating the alleged financial irregularities by Prasad’s family after the CBI and the Income Tax department.nnSource: ANI