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ED registers ECIR in illegal mining case.
PANAJI: The directorate of enforcement, Goa, has registered an enforcement case investigation report (ECIR) to probe into money laundering and corruption angles in the Rs 35,000 crore illegal mining case.
The case is against government officials, mining companies and entities identified and mentioned in a report of the central empowered committee appointed by the Supreme Court of India, Justice M B Shah commission report and public accounts committee report of Goa. There are no names listed in the ECIR, sources said.
The CEC in its report observed that in Goa there was no system of periodic verification of the iron ore produced in the mining leases, payment of royalty after verification, issue of transit permits by the forest department, issue of permits by the mining department for transportation etc and hence illegal mining took place outside the mining leased area and the same was conveniently shown to have been done legally in the leased area. A number of environmental clearances for the status of the land was mentioned as non-forest whereas the leased area comprised partly/wholly of forest land, it said.
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