NHAI toll plaza collection fraud: Enforcement Directorate raids businessman’s house, office in Jammu

The useful part

Besides Jammu, simultaneous searches were conducted at different locations in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi-NCR and West Bengal. ED action, reportedly, was in cognizance of two FIRs registered with Police alleging use of unauthorised software applications for toll receipts' generation and diverting collected money outside the official accounting mechanism. During the raids, which began at around 9 am or so, the entry and exit points to both the places remained sealed.

How it works

• The ED officials analysed all available records with an objective of recovering digital and documentary evidence to trace the proceeds of crime and identify all beneficiaries.
• Reports suggested that the forensic examination and the NHAI records corroborated use of such unauthorised software.
• Sources pointed out that the ED officials were exhaustively analysing documentary, digital evidence and complex web of financial flows across several states, to reach to the bottom...