Jamshedpur MLA Saryu Roy writes to Enforcement Directorate, seeks probe against 32 shell companies linked to Ravi Kejriwal

Mail News Service

Jamshedpur, May 21: Jamshedpur East MLA Saryu Roy has sent a letter to the Deputy Director of Enforcement Directorate (ED) and furnished a list of 32 shell companies linked to Ravi Kejriwal, a former JMM leader close to Chief Minister Hemant Soren. He demanded that the ED should conduct a probe to identify the real people behind these shell companies by matching his list with the companies under probe in the money laundering and corruption case against IAS officer Pooja Singhal.

According to Roy, “I had issued a list of 32 shell companies connected to Ravi Kejriwal and his close associates on 13^th July 2013 when Hemant Soren had become Chief Minister for the first time. Kejriwal was the director of four of these companies while Amit Kumar Agrawal and Radhakrishna Agrawal were directors in six and eight companies respectively. Hemant Agrawal and Dashrat Agrawal were directors in three and two companies respectively while others were directors in one company each.”

Roy said the ED should find out the connections between the said businessmen who had set up shell companies for laundering of public money and converting black money into white money. He said numerous companies having their registered addresses in Mahatma Gandhi Road and Ganesh Chandra Avenue of Kolkata were formed for the purpose money laundering.