Overview
- The Enforcement Directorate filed a 99-page prosecution complaint with about 3,700 pages of evidence before the Special PMLA Court in Raipur on Tuesday, Sept 22, 2026, formally charging seven people including former CGPSC chair Taman Singh Sonwani.
- The agency says it has already arrested key suspects in the money‑laundering probe, including Sonwani in July and Utkarsh Chandrakar and Chetan Borghariya in early and mid‑September, and the investigation remains active.
- The ED alleges two main money streams: a Rs 45 lakh payment routed to Sonwani’s Gramin Vikas Samiti shown as CSR funding and roughly Rs 3.13 crore collected from candidates who were promised exam papers and guaranteed selection.
- Investigators say the scheme involved changing recruitment rules to remove the word 'nephew', distributing leaked preliminary papers at Siddhi Vinayak Marriage Palace in Raipur, and paid coaching at Barnawapara Sanctuary Resort to prepare favoured candidates.
- The case builds on an EOW FIR and CBI probes from 2024–25, the ED has provisionally attached about Rs 47 lakh of assets, and the court process will determine whether alleged exam manipulation and the alleged laundering of candidate payments lead to convictions.