From Kashmir to Kerala, many CMs, ex-CMs are under ED probe

🔴 Telangana CM Revanth Reddy is under ED probe for money laundering. Reddy, then TDP floor leader in the Assembly, was booked for allegedly paying a bribe of Rs 50 lakh to a nominated MLA for his favourable vote in the MLC elections in 2015.

🔴 The ED began a PMLA probe against Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan in April 2021, more than 13 years after the CBI chargesheeted him (then CPIM’s Kerala state secretary) in the 1995 SNC Lavalin case. The case pertains to alleged corruption in a contract awarded to Canadian firm SNC Lavalin for modernisation of hydroelectric projects in Idukki. Vijayan was electricity minister then.

🔴 Andhra Pradesh CM Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy has been facing multiple probes since the UPA era. The ED booked him in a fresh PMLA case in 2015. The case pertained to the financial affairs of Jagan-owned Bharathi Cements.

🔴 Former Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel is facing ED probes in at least three cases of alleged money laundering related to irregularities in coal transportation, operation of liquor vends and Mahadev gaming app, during his government.

🔴 Former Bihar CM Lalu Prasad, his wife Rabri Devi and son Tejashwi Yadav are key accused in the alleged IRCTC scam and the land-for-jobs case. While the 2017 IRCTC case pertains to alleged favours given by Lalu as railway minister to a company hired for the maintenance of two IRCTC hotels, the 2022 land-for-jobs case accuses Lalu family of taking plots in exchange of jobs in railways.

🔴 Former Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda is being probed by the ED in the Manesar land deal case, and land allotment in Panchkula to Associated Journals Ltd (AJL). The agency has already filed a prosecution complaint against Hooda and senior Congress leader Motilal Vora in the AJL case.

🔴  Former Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot and his once deputy CM Sachin Pilot, along with Congress MP Karti Chidambaram, are named in the ‘Rajasthan ambulance scam’ case. The 2015 case pertains to giving a contract to run ‘108’ ambulance service to  Ziqitza Healthcare in a fraudulent manner in 2010. The company, where Pilot and Karti were once allegedly directors, is accused of submitting exaggerated invoices.

🔴 Samajwadi Party chief and former Uttar Pradesh CM Akhilesh Yadav is also under investigation by both the CBI and the ED for alleged irregularities in the Gomti riverfront project as well as mining contracts.

🔴 BSP chief and former Uttar Pradesh CM Mayawati is not named in any FIR by any Central agency, but several projects and schemes from her tenure as CM are under investigation.

🔴 Former J&K CM Farooq Abdullah is under probe in connection with alleged irregularities in grants given by the BCCI to the J&K Cricket Association (JKCA).

🔴 Farooq Abdullah’s son and former J&K CM Omar Abdullah was questioned by the ED in 2022 in connection with a money laundering probe concerning the financial affairs of J&K Bank and appointment of its directors.

🔴 Former J&K CM Mehbooba Mufti has been facing an ED probe in the J&K Bank matter as well, based on two diaries allegedly seized by the ED during a raid. The diaries allegedly mentions purported payments made to Mufti family.

🔴 In July 2019, the CBI booked former Arunachal CM Nabam Tuki for alleged corruption. Based on the CBI FIR, the ED is probing Tuki for alleged money laundering, alleging that Tuki, then a minister, had colluded with his brother to siphon off money.

🔴 In November 2019, the CBI conducted searches at the residence of former Manipur CM Okram Ibobi Singh for alleged corruption. The case pertains to alleged misappropriation of Rs 332 cr in Manipur Development Society when Ibobi was its chairman. Based on CBI case, the ED registered a PMLA case.

🔴 Former Gujarat CM Shankersinh Vaghela is being probed by the CBI and the ED for allegedly causing a loss of Rs 709 crore to the exchequer by selling a prime land in Mumbai when he was Union textile minister. While the CBI booked him in 2015, the ED case came in August 2016, just a day after Vaghela called PM Narendra Modi and then BJP president Amit Shah “encounter specialists”. The probe is still on.

🔴 NCP chief Sharad Pawar and his nephew Ajit Pawar, who is now Maharashtra deputy CM, are facing ED’s money laundering probe for alleged irregularities in the running of Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank.