In a statement issued on Tuesday, the ED said it had issued a provisional order under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act to freeze the “bribe” money, which according to the agency was “proceeds of crime”. In 2013, the CBI had arrested Singla for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 90 lakh in return for manipulating a posting for then Railway Board member Mahesh Kumar. The ED had filed a separate criminal case based on the CBI’s FIR and issued a chargesheet against Kumar, Singla and seven others. “For this, he was in touch with N. Manjunath who was further in touch with Sandeep Goyal, a friend of Singla. Singla demanded Rs 10 crore through Sandeep Goyal from N. Manjunath to get Mahesh Kumar posted as member (electrical),” the ED said, referring to the CBI probe.

Source: The Telegraph May 08, 2019 00:22 UTC