ED Nagpur unit searches CNI office, seizes incriminating documents
   Date :16-Mar-2023

ED Nagpur unit searches CNI office 
 
 
Staff Reporter
Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) Nagpur unit, on Wednesday, conducted searches at Church of North India (CNI) office in Sadar area after detecting monetary transactions made by P C Singh, former Bishop of CNI’s Jabalpur Diocese and accused in a Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) case. Simultaneously, the ED officials also conducted searches at 10 locations in Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand. The ED officials said that the searches were part of ongoing investigation of fraud committed by P C Singh, moderator of CNI, who was arrested by EoW of Jabalpur Police in Nagpur on September 12 last year after registration of an offence against him at Jabalpur.
Initially, EoW of Madhya Pradesh had registered a case in July 2022 against Singh and seized Rs 1.60 crore in Indian and foreign currencies from his properties. The ED took cognisance of EoW’s FIR and registered a case against Singh under PMLA. The complainant in the FIR had alleged that Singh indulged in financial misconduct in running an educational society, of which he was the Chairman.
The probe had revealed that Rs 2.70 crore collected as students’ fees by the society’s various institutions between 2004-05 and 2011-12 was allegedly transferred to religious institutions, misused and spent by the bishop for personal needs. The money was transferred to Nagpur’s CNI office too. Several incriminating documents related to financial transactions and properties were seized during the searches at CNI’s Nagpur office.