New Delhi, Oct. 24 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED), Ranchi Zonal Office, announced today that it has filed a fourth supplementary chargesheet as part of an ongoing money laundering investigation into a massive corruption syndicate within the Rural Works Department of the Jharkhand government.

This supplementary complaint before the Special PMLA Court, charges eight new suspects, including contractors, aides, and family members of officials, for their roles in generating, handling, and laundering Proceeds of Crime (POC). With this filing, the number of accused in the case has risen to 22.

The ED's investigation stems from a predicate offence registered by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in Jamshedpur, where a Junior Engineer, Suresh P...