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Updated: May 08, 2019 09:18 IST

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached cash worth Rs.89.68 lakh in a money-laundering probe against former railway minister and Congress leader Pawan Kumar Bansal’s nephew Vijay Singla.

Bansal is contesting the Lok Sabha election from Chandigarh.

The anti-money laundering probe agency said in a statement on Tuesday that it has issued a provisional order under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) to freeze the bribe money, which according to it was “proceeds of crime” in a railway bribe case.

The cash was allegedly seized by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) from the office of Bansal’s nephew Vijay Singla in 2013 in a corruption case related to appointments at top positions in the railways, when Bansal was the Union railway minister in the United Progressive Alliance – 2 regime.

On the basis of the CBI FIR, the ED had filed a money laundering case against then Railway Board Member (Staff) Mahesh Kumar, Vijay Singla, one Sandeep Goyal and seven others.

“Singla demanded ₹ 10 crore through Sandeep Goyal from N Manjunath to get Mahesh Kumar posted as Member (Electrical),” the ED said, quoting the Central Bureau of Investigation probe.