PATNA: Pune-based horse breeder and alleged hawala racketeer Hasan Ali Khan is the newest inmate of the Beur central jail in the outskirts of Patna.
The billionaire businessman was sent to jail by a local court on Friday, in connection with a ‘forged passport’ case registered against him at the Kotwali police station in Patna.
Earlier, Khan was brought here from Mumbai’s Arthur Road jail where he had been lodged after his arrest on money laundering charges by the Enforcement Directorate.
Khan is alleged to have procured a passport on a fake address in the Alamganj area of Patna City in 1997. The court had earlier issued a production warrant against Khan in connection with an FIR against him in 2011.
It was after several failed attempts and much legal wrangling that the Patna police finally managed to obtain the custody of Khan, who is facing trial in one of the biggest tax evasion scams in the country.
According to a police officer, Khan managed to procure a slew of passports from different places. “The first one was issued from Hyderabad in 1986, while the second was issued from London in 2003. He also managed to get two more passports issued in 2005, from Pune and Mumbai,” he said.
In 2011, the then investigating officer in the forged passport case, deputy superintendent of police Lalit Mohan Sharma, had camped in Mumbai for 20 days to get the custody of Khan. But he had to return empty handed due to the ongoing ED probe into the tax evasion case.
Khan had also moved the Patna high court for anticipatory bail but he did not get relief from there. The ED had booked Khan under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act for allegedly parking a huge amount of black money in Swiss bank accounts using fake passports.
Besides, the two central agencies are also investigating charges against him for alleged violation of the Passport Act.
Patna senior superintendent of police (SSP) Amrit Raj said Khan had managed to procure a passport on a Patna address which bore no mention of the house number or the road on which it was located.
Courtesy:
6 Jan 2013
Hindustan Times (Mumbai)
Avinash Kumar letters@hindustantimes.com
http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
The billionaire businessman was sent to jail by a local court on Friday, in connection with a ‘forged passport’ case registered against him at the Kotwali police station in Patna.
Earlier, Khan was brought here from Mumbai’s Arthur Road jail where he had been lodged after his arrest on money laundering charges by the Enforcement Directorate.
Khan is alleged to have procured a passport on a fake address in the Alamganj area of Patna City in 1997. The court had earlier issued a production warrant against Khan in connection with an FIR against him in 2011.
It was after several failed attempts and much legal wrangling that the Patna police finally managed to obtain the custody of Khan, who is facing trial in one of the biggest tax evasion scams in the country.
According to a police officer, Khan managed to procure a slew of passports from different places. “The first one was issued from Hyderabad in 1986, while the second was issued from London in 2003. He also managed to get two more passports issued in 2005, from Pune and Mumbai,” he said.
In 2011, the then investigating officer in the forged passport case, deputy superintendent of police Lalit Mohan Sharma, had camped in Mumbai for 20 days to get the custody of Khan. But he had to return empty handed due to the ongoing ED probe into the tax evasion case.
Khan had also moved the Patna high court for anticipatory bail but he did not get relief from there. The ED had booked Khan under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act for allegedly parking a huge amount of black money in Swiss bank accounts using fake passports.
Besides, the two central agencies are also investigating charges against him for alleged violation of the Passport Act.
Patna senior superintendent of police (SSP) Amrit Raj said Khan had managed to procure a passport on a Patna address which bore no mention of the house number or the road on which it was located.
Courtesy:
6 Jan 2013
Hindustan Times (Mumbai)
Avinash Kumar letters@hindustantimes.com
http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
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