ED detected over Rs.104 crore in BSP account

Enforcement Directorate (ED) has detected cash deposits totalling over 104 crore rupees in an account belonging to Bahujan Samaj Party and almost 1 crore 50 lakh rupees in an account belonging to party Supremo Mayawati's brother Anand Kumar in a branch of United Bank of India in Delhi.

Sources in the Enforcement Directorate said, as part of its routine survey and enquiry operations to check suspicious and huge cash deposits in banks, the agency officials visited the Karol Bagh branch



of the bank yesterday.It found huge deposits made in these two accounts post-demonetisation. The officials found that 102 crores were deposited in 1,000 rupees notes and the rest 3 crore in old 500 rupee notes. Officials said, huge cash of about 15 to 17 crore rupees was deposited every other day.

ED has sought full details about the two accounts from the bank. It has also asked the bank to provide CCTV footage and Know Your Customer documents used to open the accounts.