Jaipur News Desk: After investigating fake certificates in Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM), the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has now started investigating fake payments. Preliminary investigation has revealed that the contractor companies did not do the work in the field and the engineers of the water supply department also made fake payments worth crores of rupees without measuring and verifying the pipelines and tanks. Now the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has tightened its grip on the cases of fake payments. Assistant Director of ED has written a letter to Dinesh Goyal, Chief Engineer of Water Supply Department, all the NIT, tender amount of M/s Shree Shyam Tubewell Company and M/s Shree Ganpati Tubewell Company. All the information including payment, amount of work has been sought again. ED is investigating money laundering. In the report, information has been sought as to how much work was done in each work order and by when and how much payment was made. Apart from this, a report has also been sought on payment for the work.
It is being told that money laundering has taken place on a large scale in the JJM scam of Rs 900 crore. The scam money has been invested in disputed lands and benami properties. ED has raided many property traders of the city and many land traders are under surveillance. Payment worth crores has been made without any work. After the work order, payment is made to the contractor firms for the project in three phases. In the first phase, after receiving the work order, 70 percent payment is made to the firm for purchasing pipes after complete measurement. In the second phase, 20 percent payment is made after the line is laid. In the third and final phase, 10 percent payment is made upon commissioning or commissioning of the pipeline. But the report of the water supply department has revealed that 70 to 90 percent payment was made to both the disputed contractor firms without any work, while the pipes were also not found on the spot.
