The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday conducted raids at the residences of Rashtriya Janata Dal MLA Kiran Devi, her husband and former legislator Arun Yadav, and others in connection with a money laundering probe related to the alleged possession of disproportionate assets, official sources told PTI.

Kiran Devi is a sitting MLA of Lalu Prasad-led RJD, she represents the Sandesh constituency in Bhojpur district. Arun Yadav held the same position from 2015 to 2020.

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According to the sources, when ED officials reached Kiran Devi’s residence on Tuesday morning, the MLA was not there, subsequently searches were conducted at the premises linked to the MLA in Bhojpur’s Agiaon.

Despite several attempts by the PTI news agency, the RJD MLA was not available for comments on the ED action.

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The case stems from a total of 16 FIRs filed by the Bihar Police at various police stations in Ara district, against Kiran Devi and husband Arun Yadav. The probe agency has filed a criminal case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) against the couple in 2021.

Earlier, ED recorded the couple’s statement along with some family members as part of the probe, even as it obtained property documents and bank account statements of the Yadav family and a linked entity — Kiran Durga Contractors Pvt Ltd.

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According to sources, the investigation discovered that the Yadav family got around 72 properties like farms, apartments, and homes in Ara district and Patna, valued at Rs 9.90 crore. They also supposedly put Rs 20.5 crore in cash into their accounts from 2002-03 to 2021-22.

The assets and cash deposits held by the Arun Yadav family and the linked entities are suspected to be disproportionate to their known and legal sources of income.

Arun Yadav is also under the scanner of the central probe agencies in connection with the land-for-job scam case involving RJD supremo Lalu Prasad and his family members.