The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday performed a collection of raids in reference to the cash laundering probe into pretend COVID exams through the just lately held Kumbh Mela in Haridwar, Uttarakhand.
Searches have been additionally performed on the places of work of Novus Path Labs, DNA Labs, Max Corporate Services, Dr Lal Chandni Labs Pvt Ltd and Nalwa Laboratories Pvt Ltd and the residential premises of their administrators at Dehradun, Haridwar, Delhi, Noida and Hisar. The company stated in a press release.
The ED stated it has seized “defamatory documents, forged bills, laptops, mobile phones and property documents and Rs 30.9 lakh in cash” through the raids.
The company had just lately registered a felony case towards the accused firms and their administrators below the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) after learning the FIR of the Uttarakhand Police.
After that the raid was performed.
The ED stated these laboratories got the contract by the Uttarakhand authorities to conduct speedy antigen and RT-PCR exams for coronavirus through the Kumbh Mela.
These labs hardly performed any COVID-19 exams and made “fake entries” for testing and raised “fake” payments to earn unlawful monetary positive aspects.
“They have already received Rs 3.4 crore as part payment from the Uttarakhand government,” the ED stated.
The company stated its investigation discovered that “the methodology used by these laboratories was that they used single mobile numbers or false mobile numbers, single addresses or a single sample referral form to show increased numbers without any coronavirus test.” (SRF) used. Really testing”.
It was claimed that the check was accomplished within the identify of people that had by no means been to the Kumbh Mela in Haridwar.
The ED stated that as a result of false unfavorable testing by these laboratories, Haridwar’s positivity price at the moment was proven to be 0.18 per cent towards the precise 5.3 per cent.
One of the biggest non secular gatherings on the earth, the Kumbh was held within the state from April 1 to 30, and the notified space for the congregation included varied places in Haridwar, Dehradun and Tehri districts.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
