According to the sources, Mani Anbazhagan, son of late senior DMK leader and former minister Ko Si Mani, was arrested under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act yesterday and later produced before a magistrate court.
He was remanded to judicial custody till August 21 and lodged in the Puzhal Central Prison here.
During its probe, the ED said it found that foreign exchange of about Rs 75 crore was remitted abroad by eight shell entities on production of alleged forged bills of entry without any physical imports.
The money was allegedly "proceeds of crime" relating to scheduled offence of forgery of identity documents, they said.
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Subsequently, out of such pooled funds, foreign exchange remittances outside the country to the extent of Rs 75,50,71,724 was fraudulently made based on forged import documents, the ED sources said.
The rest of the approximately Rs 22 crore was "held up" by the ED as "part proceeds of crime".
The business and residential premises of the eight entities including that of Mani Anbazhagan, who is suspected to have acted as a "single point of contact", were also searched by the ED.
Bank officials, who had received the Account Opening Forms (AOF) for all the eight accounts, had said they got them from Anbazhagan and not directly from the sole proprietors or partners of the business entities concerned, the sources added.
The bank filed a complaint with the Chennai police and an FIR was registered on March 6 for several offences under the IPC.
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