New Delhi: The Economic Offence Wing (EOW) of Delhi Police has arrested two persons on Friday for allegedly donating Rs 2 crore to Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) through a shell company on the basis of fabricated documents.
The arrested persons have been identified as CA Sudhanshu Bansal and Mukesh Kumar.
According to sources, the two persons were allegedly indulged in forming shell companies by procuring Director Identification Number (DIN) on the basis of fabricated documents and photographs.
The arrests were made in connection with a case registered on a complaint from Registrar of Companies, New Delhi, mentioning the name of four companies who allegedly donated Rs 50 lakhs each to the Aam Aadmi Party in April 2014, police sources said.
Joint Commissioner of Police (EOW) Dr OP Mishra said that during the investigation, it was revealed that the four companies did not exist at the address available with the ROC record and the FSL report confirmed that the various documents relating to Deepak Aggarwal submitted to the Ministry of Corporate Affairs for issuing DIN are bearing his forged signatures.
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"It was also found that the forged documents for procuring DIN in the name of Deepak Aggarwal were submitted under the Digital Signature Certificate of Chartered Accountant Sudhanshu Bansal," Mishra said in a statement.
"Investigation also revealed that all the directors of the four companies namely Yogesh Kumar, Mohit Kumar, Dharmender and others are employees of accused Mukesh Kumar. The trail of the money indicated that the fund for donation to Aam Aadmi Party was generated from the account of Antara Purukul Senior Living Ltd, a subsidiary company of 'Max Group'," it said.
The case was registered under Section 420 (Cheating and dishonestly), 467 (forgery of valuable security, will), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (Using as genuine a forged document) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) was registered at EOW Police Station, Delhi on November 21, 2015.
In its complaint, the Registrar of Companies had alleged that four companies -- Goldmine Buildcon Pvt Ltd, Skyline Metal and Alloys Pvt Ltd, Sun Vision Agencies Pvt Ltd, and Infolance Software Solutions Ltd -- donated Rs 50 lakh each to Aam Aadmi Party on April 5, 2014.
Reacting on this issue, BJP spokesperson in Delhi, Teena Sharma, said," Some days back, the Aam Aadmi Party received Rs 50 lakh from the shell companies. Who gave such a huge amount of donation? Everyone knows about Sushil Gupta, who won the Rajya Sabha ticket by donating money to the party. And now Delhi Police have arrested Mukesh and his associates. A CBI inquiry should investigate the donation amount of the Aam Aadmi Party."
The police said that ROC filed the complaint after taking up a suo-moto inquiry in February 2015, when the issue of donation by the four companies to AAP was covered by the media.
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The complaint had alleged that the four companies are bogus and that there was a huge infusion of money in these companies by way of 'share premium amount' but the source of the money was not disclosed. Further investigation is in progress to unearth a bigger conspiracy, the police said.
(With inputs from ANI)
