The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday filed a chargesheet under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) against Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad’s daughter and MP Misa Bharti, her husband Shailesh Kumar and others in the Rs 8,000 crore money laundering case. The agency filed the chargesheet before Special Judge Naresh Kumar Malhotra at the Patiala House Courts. The judge has listed the matter for consideration in the first week of January.
The ED in July had also filed a supplementary chargesheet against Bharti’s chartered accountant Rajesh
Agrawal in connection with the case in which it named around 35 accused, including businessmen brothers Surendra and Virendra Jain and some companies. Agrawal was accused of converting black money into legal source of income through dubious transactions with the help of the Jain brothers.
The ED arrested the brothers on March 20. In May, it filed the first chargesheeet in the case, and thereafter, arrested Agrawal on May 22. Agrawal has also been accused of helping Bharti’s husband’s company, Mishail Packers and Printers Pvt Ltd “with some transactions”.