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Sherpuria, who came from Ghazipur, UP state, was arrested by the UP STF of Kanpur last week and made his fortune in Gujarat. He has been accused of defrauding several businessmen by faking access to the Prime Minister’s Office.
Sources said the agency has registered a case under various sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) on the basis of FIR information recorded by the UP STF at VIbhutinagar Police Station in Lucknow. An emergency department official said, “There is prima facie evidence that Sherpuria has indulged in hawala transactions, receiving unaccounted for money, and seeking funds for unscrupulous purposes.”
Outside Sherpuria office on Golf Course Road, New Delhi. (Quick photo by Abhinav Saha)
Sources said the agency has already conducted searches in Varanasi, Gazipur and Delhi NCR districts in connection with the case.
The sources said the director has been on Cherpuria’s tail for months, discreetly investigating his predecessors after receiving input about his suspicious activities from intelligence agencies. Another official in the Emergency Department said that US Special Forces arrested Sherpuria on Ed’s signal. “Since Ed cannot file a money laundering case on her own without a predicate offense being registered by another agency, a signal has been sent to the UP Police,” the official said.
Sources said the emergency unit will take over Sherpuria’s detention at the appropriate time.
As The Indian Express reported earlier, Chorporia had “connections” within the regime – he has had pictures clicked with many of the BJP’s top leaders and two of his half-dozen books have been launched by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat.
Last December, the Union Ministry of Fisheries, Dairy and Animal Husbandry approved a grant of Rs 2 crore to his NGO Rashtriya Gokul Project.
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