Key Highlights
- The ED initiated its PMLA investigation based on an FIR registered by the Bengaluru Police, the ACB Raipur, and a chargesheet filed by the Income Tax Department concerning the illegal collection of a coal levy in Chhattisgarh.
- The investigation revealed that a group of private individuals, in active connivance with senior state politicians and bureaucrats, formed a racket to extort money from coal transporters at a rate of Rs.
- 25 per tonne of coal transported between July 2020 and June 2022.
- During this period, the syndicate illegally collected approximately Rs.
- 540 crore.
