New Delhi, Oct. 18 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED), Ranchi Zonal Office, today filed a supplementary chargesheet before a special PMLA court against Dinesh Gope, the self-styled chief of the proscribed Naxal organisation, the People's Liberation Front of India (PLFI), and 19 others.
The chargesheet involves a case of terror funding and money laundering, where the total proceeds of crime generated through systematic extortion and levy collection by the PLFI are estimated to be about Rs 20 crore. The ED investigation has so far traced and identified a money laundering trail of Rs 3.36 crore.
The ED initiated its PMLA investigation based on multiple FIRs and chargesheets filed by the Jharkhand Police and the National Investigation Agency...