An assistant director-level officer with the Enforcement Directorate ( ED ), was apprehended in Lajpat Nagar, Delhi. This development follows the arrests of two other ED officers in bribery cases in Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan earlier this year. The Central Bureau of Investigation ( CBI ) detained the ED official after he was allegedly caught accepting a bribe of Rs 20 lakh from a Mumbai-based businessman whom he had threatened to falsely implicate.
Following his arrest, the ED initiated a money laundering investigation against Yadav and conducted raids at his residence in Delhi. Additionally, a joint operation by the CBI and ED searched his office premises in the capital city.
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According to CBI sources, Yadav was ensnared in a sting operation conducted by the agency’s Anti-Corruption Branch at Lajpat Nagar market in Delhi. “He was attempting to extort bribes from the concerned businessman under threat of implicating him in a fabricated case,” said a CBI official involved in the case.
Yadav, who joined the ED as an assistant director in May last year after serving with the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), faces serious charges. ThePrint reached out to the ED for comment, with updates pending upon their response.
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This incident occurs eight months after another ED officer in Madurai was arrested following allegations of receiving a bribe. Ankit Tiwari, implicated by the Tamil Nadu Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption, allegedly accepted Rs 20 lakh as part of a larger sum of Rs 51 lakh.
The ED subsequently filed charges against Tiwari based on the DIVAC’s investigation. In a separate incident in November 2023, Rajasthan’s Anti-Corruption Bureau apprehended ED officer Naval Kishore Meena for allegedly collaborating with a middleman to extort money from a businessman in Manipur, as per reports from ThePrint.
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