CBI files fresh FIR against former Mumbai top cop, NSE chiefs over money laundering
India Today
Central Investigation Bureau has filed a fresh FIR against former Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjay Pandey, and National Stock Exchange chiefs Chitra Ramkrishna and Ravi Narain over money laundering.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a fresh FIR against former Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjay Pandey and former National Stock Exchange (NSE) chiefs Chitra Ramkrishna and Ravi Narain over money laundering.
This is the second case by the federal probe agency in which Sanjay Pandey has been named as accused and the third case where Chitra Ramkrishna and Ravi Narain have been named.
According to sources, in the fresh case, it has been alleged that a firm linked to Sanjay Pandey, iSec Services, did not have the expertise to audit the brokers as asked by NSE. So it allegedly subcontracted it to small-time audit firms or chartered accountants and paid them around Rs 5,000 each to carry out the audits.
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India Today has learned that the firm connected to Pandey was paid Rs 12.5 crore in all by NSE to audit the bourse. This includes Rs 4.45 crores paid by NSE for “snooping on its employees”.
Earlier, the CBI filed a case and initiated a probe against Sanjay Pandey, Ravi Narain and Chitra Ramakrishna for their alleged involvement in snooping on certain people working with the NSE.
In the case of illegal snooping, the CBI, during its investigation, had recovered payment receipts to a company backed by Sanjay Pandey, voice samples of recordings, original transcripts of the recordings, and servers along with two laptops from the premises of iSec Services Pvt Ltd, a firm linked to Sanjay Pandey, containing incriminating evidence of phone tapping on four MTNL lines, with each line accommodating 30 calls at a time.
