CBI arrests IRS officer for bribery in IPL-betting scam

New Delhi, February 21 : The CBI on Tuesday arrested JP Singh, the then Joint Director in the Enforcement Directorate, who was facing the agency’s probe for allegedly receiving bribe from the accused in the IPL cricket-betting scam investigated by him.
Singh, a 2000-batch Indian Revenue Service officer of the Customs and Excise wing, was being probed by the CBI on the basis of a complaint received from the ED.
He has now moved to his parent cadre as Commissioner, Customs and Excise wing, of Indian Revenue Service.
Besides Singh, the CBI has also arrested enforcement officer Sanjay and two others–Vimal Aggarwal and Chandresh Patel.
“It has been alleged that certain officers of the Enforcement Directorate while investigating the cases of money laundering in betting and other such activities have allegedly demanded and accepted huge illegal gratification from the accused and suspect persons in the said cases,” a statement from the CBI had said after registering a case against Singh. The ED’s Ahmedabad unit was probing the Rs 2,000-crore IPL betting scandal, and the Rs 5,000-crore money laundering case against alleged hawala operator Afroz Fatta, in which the suspects allegedly sought favours, said sources.