Bengaluru: The sleuths of Enforcement Directorate (ED) have detained former Minister of Youth Empowerment, Sports and Tribal Welfare B. Nagendra, a Congress MLA from Ballari Rural Constituency, this morning. The detention is in connection with its probe into the alleged scam in the Karnataka Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation where funds up to Rs. 88 crore were embezzled.
Former Minister B. Nagendra was taken from his Dollar’s Colony residence to ED Office in Shanthinagar. He is expected to be formally arrested later in the day. Nagendra is accused of receiving hawala money and gold biscuits and there is suspicion that transactions of over Rs. 50 crore were made on his behalf.
