New Delhi : The Enforcement Directorate today conducted raids at three Delhi farmhouses of Misa Bharti, RJD MP and daughter of party chief Lalu Prasad, her husband and a firm linked to them, in a money laundering case probe. Sleuths of the central probe agency swooped on the farmhouses in Ghitorni, Bijwasan and Sainik Farms areas here early morning. The farmhouses are linked to Bharti, her husband Shailesh
Kumar and M/s Mishail Printers and Packers Private Limited.
Two more premises are under the scanner of the agency and can be searched later, an ED official said. The searches are connected to a money laundering probe being conducted by the agency against two brothers, Surendra Kumar Jain and Virendra Jain, and others who are alleged to
have laundered several crore rupees using shell companies. The Jain brothers were arrested by the ED under provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). One of the firms that the arrested duo dealt with was M/s Mishail Printers and Packers Private Limited. Bharti and her husband are alleged to have been directors of this firm in the past. PTI
