Published: Thursday, May 5, 2011, 23:03 IST

http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_enforcement-directorate-charge-sheet-against-ali-likely-today_1539905

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has finally documented all the evidence collected against Hasan Ali Khan and his aide Kashinath Tapuriah.

The agency is likely to file a charge sheet on Friday against the two in the money-laundering case in a special court for the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

“The charge sheet, which names both Khan and Tapuriah as the accused, will have all the details gathered from various examinations of different people in the course of investigation,” said an ED source.

While Khan is accused of having $8 billion (Rs36,000 crore) in Swiss bank accounts, Tapuriah has been accused of helping Khan in not just opening accounts in foreign banks and transferring unaccounted funds but also in acquiring passports through fake documents in Mumbai as well as Patna.

The agency recently recorded the statements of Bihar Congress leader Amlendu Pandey and Puducherry Lieutenant Governor Iqbal Singh for helping Khan get a forged passport in Patna as well as expediting the procurement of Tapuriah and his wife Chandrika’s passports in 1997 in Kolkata.

The agency also claims to have traced the source of $7 lakh (Rs3.15 crore) in Khan’s Sarasin bank account in Switzerland to a stolen diamond. A part of his funds has also been sourced from the sale of antiques and valuables of the Nizam of Salarjung museum.