NEW DELHI, June 10: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a money laundering case against a healthcare firm promoted by renowned cardiologist Dr Naresh Trehan and others in connection with alleged irregularities in the allotment of land for the Medanta Hospital in Gurgaon, officials said today.
The Central probe agency has registered a criminal case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) after going through a June 6 FIR of the Gurgaon police that has been filed against Global Health Private Ltd and others.
The 73-year-old Trehan is the co-founder of the super speciality Medanta hospital and also the CMD of Medanta Heart Institute. He is one of the directors of Global Health Private Ltd.
The ED has named all the accused as stated in the police complaint, the officials said.
The police First Information Report (FIR) at the Sadar police station of Gurgaon was filed on the directions of the Additional Sessions Court in Gurgaon on the basis of a complaint by a local resident, named Raman Sharma.
Sharma has alleged irregularities in the 53-acre land allotment for ‘Medicity’ in Sector 38, for which locals were evicted in 2004, the police FIR had said.
Trehan, in a statement, said Sharma is a “known extortionist masquerading as an RTI activist” and has made completely false and baseless allegations.
He said Sharma did not disclose to the Gurgaon court that these allegations had been fully investigated by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) at the instance of the ED and they were found to be baseless after a full inquiry was completed.
“This is how he mischievously misled the court into passing an order in his favour, that should never have been passed. The investigation now being conducted by the ED is a result of this court order,” Trehan said.
The police FIR was lodged last week and the accused were booked under sections of the PMLA and Prevention of Corruption Act apart from IPC sections 120B (criminal conspiracy), 406 (criminal breach of trust) and those related to forgery of documents and records.(PTI)
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