New Delhi Feb 21 PTI The Enforcement Directorate has filed a charge sheet before a Mumbai court in connection with its money laundering probe linked to a Red Sanders smuggling caseThe charge sheet was filed in a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act PMLA court in Mumbai on February 15 against four people including Badshah Majid Malik the alleged kingpin it said in a statementThe court took its cognisance of February 18 it saidMalik was arrested by the ED in December last year after the agency carried out raids at his premises in Mumbai and neighbouring Thane districtMalik and others had laundered the proceeds of crime generated by his illegal activities in the guise of share subscription premium in one company that had been incorporated by him and his associates The money so laundered was subsequently transferred to the accounts of the promoters of the company including Malik and was used for purchasing properties luxury cars and paying off loans the ED saidThe agency filed a money laundering case against the accused on the basis of a charge sheet filed by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence DRI against Malik and others in 2015 as part of a case relating to seizure of Red Sanders amounting to Rs 316 crore Subsequent investigations by DRI had established that Badshah Majid Malik was the kingpin of the syndicate involved in the smuggling of Red Sanders it saidRedSandersis listed in Appendix II of the CITES Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora and its export from India is restricted as per the countrys foreign trade policy PTI NES TDS TDS

“Like all good things in this world, Red Sanders also fell prey to the greed of man,” says CJI Ramana. New Delhi: On Wednesday, Chief Justice of India N V Ramana said that the concept of investigative journalism is vanishing from the Indian media. He states that ‘have witnessed newspaper reports on scandals’ but he recalls any story of such magnitude in recent years. The CJI was seen quoting so on the book launch of “Blood Sanders: The Great Forest Heist”, written by journalist Sudhakar Reddy Udumula.