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PANJIM: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has laid their hands on “incriminating documents” related to the Serula Comunidade scam.
About three days ago, a team of ED raided premises of former Attorney of Comunidade of Serula Angelo C Lobo, his brother Reginaldo Lobo, former official of Comunidade of Serula Joseph D’Sa and its former clerk Rajesh Suhas Verenkar.
ED said the raid was conducted under criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). The accused are allegedly involved in the illegal allotment of plots as well as illegal acquisition of land belonging to Comunidade of Serula.
“Incriminating documents and records relating to the illegal allotment, acquisition of plots and land belonging to the Comunidade of Serula have been seized. The incriminating documents include old blank Indian stamp papers of 1960s, old blank papers having Portuguese stamps used for making forged documents and deeds of sale used for illegal acquisition of land,” the ED said.
The ED sleuths further said that the confiscated documents also include old registers belonging to the administrator of Comunidades in Bardez Taluka, which were being used for the purpose of alleged illegal allotment of plots.
The ED’s money laundering case is based on FIRs registered by Goa Crime Branch that alleges members of managing committee of Comunidade of Serula were involved in illegal allotment of plots by fraudulently citing and using duplicate file numbers pertaining to files of offices of various administrators of Comunidades and gazette notifications of State government. This, the police said was cheating the Comunidade of Serula and other authorities.
The ED is conducting coordinated investigation with law enforcement agencies in connection with the probe into the massive scam.
