The Central Bureau of Investigation, which has reportedly issued FIRs against Kadapa MP Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, his investors and former top bureaucrats involved in the case and the Emaar scam, started investigations in earnest on Wednesday.
The CBI joint director, Mr V. Lakshminarayana, spent more than two hours in the courts with a judge and indications are that an FIR has been issued against Mr Reddy and others for misappropriation and criminal conspiracy under the Money Laundering Act and the Prevention of Corruption Act.
The YSR Congress chief’s houses in the city and in Bengaluru and the offices of Jagati Publications Limited including Sakshi media offices, and offices of other companies owned by him as well as that of Mr Nimmagadda Prasad and of around 30 companies are likely to be searched, said sources.
The CBI has received permission to search 91 places for both cases involving Mr Reddy’s illegal assets and the Emaar scam.
In Mr Reddy’s case, 52 accused have been named while 17 accused have been named in the Emaar case. Emaar MGF, Emaar Properties Limited PJSC, Emaar Hills Township Private Limited, Stylish Homes Private Limited have also been named in the case.
Meanwhile, teams including officials from Visakhapatnam and Bengaluru congregated at the Dilkhusha Guest House in the city on Wednesday and were briefed by the CBI top cops regarding their part in the probe. Sources said that the blistering pace of the CBI probe indicated that the key accused in the Emaar and Jagan cases might be arrested as soon as material evidence was found against them. An FIR has also reportedly been issued in the Emaar case against former APIIC officials and Emaar authorities and beneficiaries.
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Jagan moves SC against CBI probe
AGE CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI
Aug. 17: YSR Congress leader and Lok Sabha MP Jaganmohan Reddy on Wednesday moved three sets of petitions in the Supreme Court challenging the Andhra Pradesh order for CBI inquiry against him and his companies and permitting the agency to register an FIR on the basis of material collected by it.
The August 10 order of the high court was challenged in three separate special leave petitions (SLPs) arising out of two complaints of Andhra Pradesh minister P. Shankar Rao and one filed by TDP leader K. Yerran Naidu.