The Fact News service
Gurugram April, 1
In yet another crackdown against gangster Lawrence Bishnoi‘s money manager Surender alias Chiku, the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has provisionally attached movable and immovable properties registered in the name of his family and relatives.
The properties, which include cash and bank account balance, amounts to over 17 crores and is spread across Narnaul in Haryana and Jaipur in Rajasthan.
The properties have been attached under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002. According to the agency, Chiku was managing the crime money of Bishnoi through his gang members and acquired properties in the names of his family members and relatives.
He is currently in Tihar jail and was arrested by the ED in February in relation to an alleged illegal mining business case. The investigations reportedly confirmed his involvement in ‘dubious’ mining businesses in Narnaul through a company called Nimawat Granites Pvt. Ltd.
The agency conducted a drone survey of the mined area in the presence of mining and revenue officials to make calibrated estimates of the extorted money from mining businesses under the patronage of gangster Chiku. The survey reportedly revealed that the quarrying by the concerned company has resulted in extraction of more than 1 lakh metric tonnes of stones from these mines.
According to the investigating agency, Chiku wielded his criminal clout and introduced his brother-in-law Vikash Kumar as a director and a shareholder in this company that was awarded a mining tender at Bakhrija mines in Narnaul.
Through this deal, Surender Singh Chiku and Vikash Kumar extorted Rs 2.84 crore without business investment.
