New Delhi, August 4: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday seized RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s daughter Misa Bharti‘s farmhouse situated in Delhi’s Bijwasan area. The sprawling building was allegedly bought by the laundered money funneled through a shell company. The documents pertaining to the property were submitted to Delhi’s Patiala House court.
The ED had conducted searches at her farmhouse in July and the premises of the firm in question. The agency is probing money laundering of several crores linked to Misa and her husband Shailesh, two businessmen brothers and Misa’s chartered accountant.
Businessmen brothers– the Jain brothers– were arrested under PMLA. It is alleged that the brothers used 90 shell companies to launder money, and Misa and her husband were directors at one such firm, named Ms Mishail Printers and Packers Private Limited. In May, ED had also arrested CA Rajesh Agarwal in the case.
Reports say that the agency detected four other shell companies bought 1,20,000 shares of Mishail Printers for Rs 100 in 2007-08. These shares were allegedly bought by Bharti for Rs 10 per share. She later allegedly sold the shares at Rs 100 to Shalini Holdings in October 2008, earning Rs 1.20 crore. She purchased the farmhouse in Bijwasan for Rs 1.41 crore, which is presently valued at Rs 50 crore.
