Overview
- Deputy mamlatdar Chandrasinh Mori was remanded to ED custody until January 1 after ₹67.50 lakh was seized in a Surendranagar land‑use bribery probe, as the Gujarat ACB filed an FIR naming former collector Rajendrakumar Patel and three others.
- ED said Mori collected preset “speed money” via intermediaries to expedite change‑of‑land‑use applications and is suspected of generating proceeds of crime exceeding ₹1 crore.
- In the Delhi‑NCR tech‑support fraud case, the ED arrested Chandra Prakash Gupta, identified assets worth over ₹100 crore, and detailed a flow of victim funds through Hong Kong accounts, cryptocurrency, and shell entities.
- Investigators in the ‘digital arrest’ scam linked to industrialist S. P. Oswal searched 11 sites across five states, arrested facilitator Rumi Kalita, and said ₹5.24 crore of the roughly ₹7 crore defrauded was traced and returned.
- Separate actions included searches against Ruchi Group entities that led to frozen bank funds and cash seizures in a bank‑fraud probe, a prosecution complaint with ₹22.26 crore provisionally attached in an Odisha cooperative case, and a new PMLA case against UK‑based preacher Maulana Shamsul Huda Khan over alleged foreign‑funded assets.