IN ONE of its most strategically coordinated intelligence-based crackdowns, the Enforcement Directorate Raipur Zonal Office (ED-RPZO) on Wednesday launched multi-city search and seizure operations across 18 premises linked to Mokshit Corporation director Shashaank Chopraunearthing a sprawling web of Proceeds of Crime (PoC) in the Rs 411 crore Chhattisgarh Medical Services Corporation Limited (CGMSCL) scam. The early morning enforcement, steered by ED-RPZO Joint Director Prabhakar Prabhat, was executed with surgical precision by a 50-member team drawn from Raipur, Nagpur, Ranchi and Vizag, backed by 56 armed CRPF personnel. The operations commenced concurrently at 7 AM across 10 residential and 8 commercial locations in Durg, Raipur and Bilaspur-covering assets linked to Chopra, his family, and multiple related entities.

 

ED teams froze over Rs 2.5 crore in cash deposits across multiple bank accounts and uncovered undisclosed lockers that could open what insiders called a “Pandora’s box” of hidden PoC assets. A Porsche and Toyota Fortuner were seized on site, while registration and insurance papers of two Mercedes-Benz cars and a Mini Cooper, reportedly bought through laundered funds-were recovered. The latter vehicles remain untraced, with tracking underway. Simultaneously, ED cyberforensics specialists began cloning laptops, encrypted USBs and emails seized during the ops. Preliminary analysis revealed damning links to fake service providers, layered shell firms, and cash-for-contract bribe circuits pointing toward senior officials involved in the 2023 CGMSCL tender manipulation phase. ED also found documents related to land parcels worth several crores, which were acquired through PoC. The raids have flagged a fresh laundering trail exceeding Rs 100 crore, currently undergoing forensic quantification.

 

“This was a four-month intelligence-planned operation, and the assets unearthed clearly expose white-collar criminality,” said a senior ED officer, speaking on condition of anonymity. “More arrests and attachments under Section 5 of the PMLA are imminent.” The Directorate is now preparing a formal plea to the Special PMLA Court for custodial interrogation of Shashaank Chopra, who remains incarcerated in Raipur Central Jail following his SEOIACB-led arrest in January. ED officials asserted that Chopra’s custodial examination is crucial to identifying co-beneficiaries, mapping missing PoC, and decoding shell-to-cash laundering patterns. Notably, Chopra’s father-also a suspected scam beneficiary-has remained untraceable for over six months and is now under federal watch. The operation stems from ECIR No. RPZO/07/2025, filed on February 18, 2025, invoking Sections 3 and 4 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

 

The ECIR is anchored on predicate offences under IPC Sections 409 and 120B, along with Sections 13(1)(a), 13(2), and 7(c) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (as amended in 2018). This ECIR draws from SEOIACB FIR No. 05/25, which had exposed a vast public procurement fraud through the now-scrutinised ‘Hamar Lab’ initiative under tender ID 182/EQP/CGMSCL/2022-23. The FIR named Mokshit Corp, CB Corporation, Recorders & Medicare System (Panchkula), Shri Sharda Industries, and senior CGMSCL and Directorate of Health Services officials as co-conspirators. Notably, reagent tubes procured from Mokshit Corp for Rs 2,352 apiece were valued at Rs 8.50 elsewhere, and CBC machines purchased at Rs 17 lakh were available for Rs 5 lakh in the open market. Despite lacking any manufacturing base, Mokshit secured bulk contracts-allegedly by leveraging insider access and shell fronts.