The Enforcement Directorate (ED) said on Thursday that he had arrested a person from Gurugram on charges of raising money from people by becoming a senior officer of the federal investigative agency.
The ED said in a statement that Raviraj Kumar has been detained under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). According to the statement, Raviraj was involved in “fraud, forgery and raising money from people by calling himself a senior ED officer”.
It said that a court in Gurugram sent him to the custody of ED for five days on Wednesday. Earlier, Haryana Police arrested him after an FIR was lodged against Raviraj at Sector-10 police station in Gurugram.
Taking cognizance of this FIR, the ED had registered a case against it under the Prevention of Money Prevention Act. The ED said, “Raviraj is a habitual criminal and has been involved in money for many years.”
He said that the investigation found that Raviraj had threatened a builder of Gurugram to suffer serious consequences by calling himself a senior ED officer and raising money from him.
According to the ED, Raviraj used several SIM cards to hide his identity and cheat a large number of people. The investigating agency claimed that an investigation into a bank account of the accused revealed that it had illegally raised around Rs 80 lakh.
