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New Delhi, June 13: Assets worth Rs 47.80 crore of former Rajasthan Minister Mahesh Joshi and his aides were provisionally attached by the Enforcement Directorate in Jaipur in connection with the Rs 1,000-crore Jal Jeevan Mission scam.
The Jaipur Zonal Office of ED cracked the whip and provisionally attached movable/immovable properties in the form of agricultural land, residential flats, houses and movable properties belonging to former minister Mahesh Joshi, Padamchand Jain, Mahesh Mittal, Sanjay Badaya, and Vishal Saxena and their family members/associate firms.
The properties in various parts of Jaipur were attached under the provisions of PMLA, 2002.
The money laundering case is linked to a corruption case registered by the Rajasthan Anti-Corruption Bureau against the former minister and 22 others.
Joshi was the minister in charge of Rajasthan’s Public Health Engineering Department when the alleged scam took place following which in April, Joshi was arrested by the ED in connection with the scam.
The JJM scam pertains to fraudulent tendering under the Central government’s Jal Jeevan Mission Yojana, aimed at providing tap water to every household.
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