A Special PMLA Court in Kolkata has convicted an official of a Rose Valley group company & awarded him seven years rigorous imprisonment on money laundering charges, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) said on Saturday. The central probe agency had registered an FIR against the firm, its Chairman Gautam Kundu & others in 2014 under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
Kundu was arrested by the agency in Kolkata in 2015.
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The ED, in a statement said that "The court has sentenced Arun Mukherjee to suffer rigorous imprisonment of seven years & to pay a fine of Rs 2.5 lakh in default rigorous imprisonment for another six months,".
It said Mukherjee was debenture trustee & was responsible for the acts & affairs of the Rose Valley Real Estates Construction Ltd company & had pleaded guilty for the offence of money laundering before the court.
It was alleged, the ED said, before markets regulator Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) that Rose Valley Real Estate Construction Limited & its associate companies repeatedly floated secured non-convertible debentures during 2001-2002, 2004-2005, 2005-2006 & in 2007-2008 & issued them to more than 49 persons in each financial year, illegally raising a total sum of Rs 12.82 crore.
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The agency said the probe found that this company "under the direction & control of accused persons had accumulated investments from 2,585 persons, a total of around Rs 12 crore & acquired control over various securities as defined under various sections of the SEBI Act".
It said that "The money so acquired was further laundered by investing the same in various movable properties".
The charges were framed in this case in February, 2012 & trial of other accused is ongoing, it said.
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