Satyendar Jain.
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New Delhi: The President has given sanction to prosecute senior AAP leader and former Delhi Minister Satyendar Jain in a money laundering case being investigated by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), officials said on Monday.
The request by the MHA for sanction for prosecution under Section 218 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita was based on the ED investigation and the presence of "adequate proof". The ED had arrested Jain, a close confidante of AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal, in May 2022.
Officials said the President has felt that prima facie, there is evidence against Jain, and gave permission to prosecute Jain.
The money-laundering case against Jain arose out of a CBI FIR in August 2017 on charges of alleged possession of disproportionate assets. Jain is accused of amassing disproportionate assets of Rs 1.47 crore, which was 217 per centmore than his known sources of income during 2015-17. The CBI had filed a chargesheet in December 2018.
The ED had said that its probe had found that "during 2015 and 2016, when Satyendar Kumar Jain was a public servant, the companies beneficially owned and controlled by him received accommodation entries to the tune of Rs 4.81 crore from shell (paper) companies against cash transferred to Kolkata-based entry operators through the hawala route."
Jain, who represented Shakur Basti since 2013, was defeated in the 2025 polls by BJP's Karnail Singh. He has been a minister in the AAP government since 2013 but resigned in February 2023, nine months after he was arrested.