BMC Jumbo COVID Centre scam: Special PMLA court summons four accused, including Sunil Kadam and Sonu Bajaj, in money laundering case | Representative Image
Mumbai: The special PMLA court while taking cognisance of the supplementary prosecution complaint in Jumbo covid center case, has observed that the newly added accused were all involved in money laundering and ultimately tried to make tainted money untainted.
The special PMLA court has issued summons to newly added four accused namely – Sunil Kadam alias Bala, his close associate Sonu Bajaj, Sanjay Parab of Elegant Multi Services and Ravikant Singh of MS Consultancy. They have been asked to appear before the court on December 31.
While issuing summons to the four accused the court observed, “All accused persons appear to have involved in this process of money laundering and ultimately tried to make tented money untainted.”
Refering to the arguments advanced by the ED prosecutor Kavita Patil, the court said, “Kadam appears to be involved in generation and layering of proceeds of crime amounting to Rs 32.44 Crores in collaboration with the partners of M/s Lifeline Hospital Management Services. Accused No.8 (Kadam) was instrumental in securing the tender fraudulently by submitting false and incomplete documents by M/s Lifeline Hospital Management Services, by using his influence, though he is not partner of the said firm as per the documents.”
“The accused no 8 was keeping his information concealed while drawing a salary equal to that of the other four partners, around Rs 1.75 Lakhs per month, and also received Rs 45 Lakhs as rental payments from M/s Lifeline Hospital Management Services without any formal documentation,” the court noted.
The court noted that Kadam recieved Rs 1.81 crores, into his personal account which has been utilized for purchased of property in the name of Bajaj.
Similarly, the court noted that Parab ‘assisted the partner and co-accused of M/s Lifeline Hospital Management Services in submission of inflated invoices with falsified attendance records to secure excess payments from MCGM.’
While for Singh, the court noted, “he played a key role in layering and diversion of proceeds of crime. He has received a portion of the proceeds of crime, totaling to Rs 2.53 crores from M/s Lifeline Hospital Management Services into his SBI Bank Account. He provided commission to the co-accused partners of M/s Lifeline Hospital Management Services in the form of cash payments.”
