{"id":566784,"date":"2023-03-29T11:22:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T05:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=566784"},"modified":"2023-03-29T13:02:10","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T07:32:10","slug":"enforcement-directorate-conducts-searches-in-chhattisgarh-coal-levy-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/enforcement-directorate-conducts-searches-in-chhattisgarh-coal-levy-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Enforcement Directorate conducts searches in Chhattisgarh coal levy case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday conducted fresh searches at multiple locations in Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh as part of its ongoing money-laundering investigation into an illegal coal levy case, official sources said. <\/p>\n<p>The investigation relates to &#8220;a massive scam in which illegal levy of Rs 25 was being extorted for every tonne of coal transported in Chhattisgarh by a cartel involving senior bureaucrats, businessmen, politicians and middlemen&#8221;, the agency had earlier said. <\/p>\n<p>The ED had said an amount of at least Rs 540 crore was &#8220;extorted&#8221; over the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>Nine people have been arrested till now in the case by the ED. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday conducted fresh searches at multiple locations in Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh as part of its ongoing money-laundering investigation into an illegal coal levy case, official sources said. The investigation relates to &#8220;a massive scam in which illegal levy of Rs 25 was being extorted for every tonne of coal transported in Chhattisgarh by a cartel involving senior bureaucrats, businessmen, politicians and middlemen&#8221;, the agency had earlier said. The ED had said an amount of at least Rs 540 crore was &#8220;extorted&#8221; over the last two years. Nine people have been arrested till now in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[226,130,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}