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ED Secures Four-Day Custody of Naveen Rohra to Unravel ₹60 Crore Conversion Racket

Investigators will question Rohra on overseas remittances to map the conversion ring’s shell company network.

Overview

  • The ED obtained Rohra’s custody until August 8 to extract precise accounts of foreign funding linked to Chhangur Baba’s operations.
  • Investigators have traced about ₹60 crore funnelled through hawala channels, shell firms and more than 20 domestic and overseas bank accounts.
  • Rohra, a former Dubai shipment operator, is alleged to have channelled funds in the names of associates, including his wife Neetu Rohra.
  • Parallel ATS, ED and NIA operations have conducted multi-state raids, seized documents and demolished properties in Balrampur and Mumbai.
  • Seized records include entries of suspected political payoffs and echo findings from a 2024 Balrampur DM report that flagged police collusion.