CBI raids former ED official Gandhi who handled Andhra CM Jaganmohan's cases; recovers assets worth Rs 3.75 cr

HYDERABAD: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which has registered a disproportionate assets case against Central GST anti-evasion wing superintendent Bollineni Sreenivasa Gandhi, conducted searches on his property in Hyderabad and Vijayawada and unearthed Rs 3.75 crore worth of assets so far.
Bollineni Gandhi was the longest-serving official in the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for more than 10 years and handled high profile cases such as money laundering case against Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy and several other cases. Sources said Gandhi ran the office of ED in Hyderabad while a joint director rank official was just a yes man though he was an assistant director.
The CBI, which launched nationwide searches as part of special drive, conducted raids in Hyderabad and Vijayawada on the properties of BS Gandhi.
When Jaganmohan was opposition leader in Andhra Pradesh in 2017 February, he had lodged a complaint with Prime Minister Narendra Modi against the alleged vindictive and discriminatory action of the then joint director SA Uma Shankar Goud and assistant director BS Gandhi and alleged they acted under the undue and coercive influence of TDP government.
After his transfer to GST department, Begumbazar division, within no time, he got transferred to anti-evasion wing at the headquarters of Hyderabad GST Commissionarate. Gandhi was probing cases against companies running in the premises of Sujana Group, founded by former minister YS Chowdary. Chowdary recently joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Several complaints were lodged against Gandhi with the ED top officials, finance ministry and the PMO that the official was sitting on several cases booked under FEMA and PMLA.
Gandhi worked in the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence from August 2002 to March 2012 for around 10 years and later worked in ED from May 2012 to 2019 for seven years and now is currently in GST.
In the complaint to Modi, Jaganmohan alleged, "We have been subjected to a series of orders of provisional attachment at the instance Gandhi who has been working at the instance of TDP in Andhra. Most of the cases are repetitive attachment."
Jaganmohan then mentioned that ED has issued summons to his wife YS Bharathi Reddy after six and seven years of chargesheets filed even though there is no allegation levelled against her.