Top 10 CBI Cases

1. Moin Qureshi The Moin Qureshi case was a controversial matter that contributed to the Asthana-Verma feud. According to Asthana's testimony to the CVC, a Hyderabad-based businessman named Satish Babu Sana allegedly paid Verma Rs 2 crore to shield himself from the CBI's investigation into Qureshi, a meat exporter, on charges of tax evasion and money laundering. Asthana claimed he planned to arrest Sana, but Verma intercepted him and stopped him. Sana then filed an FIR alleging that he had bribed Asthana to protect him in the Qureshi case. 2. IRCTC Scam The involvement of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, his wife Rabri Devi, and son Tejashwi Yadav, as well as others, in the investigations into the IRCTC scam, where Lalu Prasad, his wife Rabri Devi, and son Tejashwi Yadav, as well as others, were charged with corruption in awarding contracts for the maintenance of certain hotels during Lalu's tenure as railway minister, was one of the dozen bribery allegations. Verma allegedly instructed Asthana to call off the planned raids against Lalu in Patna at the eleventh hour in 2017, despite the fact that the raiding teams had already assembled. 3. Sterling Biotech Case The CBI discovered a few diaries in the infamous Sterling Biotech scam, in which two men named Chetan Sandesara and his brother Nitin, the directors of Vadodara-based Sterling Biotech, allegedly defrauded half a dozen banks of Rs. 5,700 crore. One of the diaries contained details of payments made by Sterling Biotech to people and firms in January and June 2011, one of which had the initials RA. It was supposed that this belonged to Asthana. According to NDTV, Asthana claimed that the initials were meant for 'running account.' 4. Vijay Mallya Case The Vijay Mallya bank fraud case was one of the most contentious and sensitive cases that the CBI had to deal with, and it was Asthana who led the Special Investigation Team (SIT) when Mallya fled India for the UK in 2016 after allegedly defrauding various banks of close to Rs 9,000 crore. 5. AgustaWestland The Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland Chopper fraud, in which suspicions of bribery being paid to “ middlemen” and even politicians surfaced after India agreed to buy 12 AgustaWestland helicopters produced by the Italian defence manufacturing giant Finmeccanica, is a very sensitive case handled by the CBI. Asthana was in charge of the investigation team. 6. DLF Land Grab Scam Against Vadra The Robert Vadra-DLF Land Grab Scam is one of the cases being examined by the CBI, in which Vadra's business Sky Light Hospitality purchased a 3.5-acre land in Shikohpur village near Manesar and allegedly transferred it to DLF for Rs 58 crore. When the anomalies in this were later questioned, the Congress government gave Vadra, who is Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law, a clean chit. 7. PNB Scam The CBI is one among the federal organizations looking into the infamous Rs 13,578-crore Punjab National Bank scandal, which involves diamantaire Nirav Modi and his uncle, Mehul Choksi, who have been missing since January 2017. The CBI is considering sending a team to Antigua and Barbuda after establishing Choksi's whereabouts there and issuing many Red Corner Notices against him. 8. Vyapam Scam Former Madhya Pradesh minister and BJP leader Laxmikant Sharma, as well as several other politicians and bureaucrats, were named in the notorious Vyapam scam of 2013, where 87 people were named in a CBI charge sheet for bribing imposters to write papers, officials to falsify answer sheets, and manipulating seating arrangements in exam halls. 9. Saradha Chit Fund Scam The Saradha Chit Fund scam, which surfaced in 2013, was another case under investigation by the CBI, in which an umbrella organization made up of 200 private actors & ndash the Saradha group & ndash was suspected of defrauding more than a million investors through ponzi schemes. The CBI accused former Finance Minister P Chidambaram's wife, Nalini, in its charge sheet for her alleged role in helping in the ponzi scams. 10. AJL Land Scam Case According to BusinessLine, the CBI filed an FIR against former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda in 2016, accusing him of abusing his position as CM to benefit Associated Journals Limited (AJL) and inflict a “ similar loss to the government of Haryana.” Hooda was accused of giving AJL an unlawfully allotted government plot of property valued at Rs 59 lakhs. The CBI arrested Hooda on allegations of criminal conspiracy, criminal breach of trust, and other offences.

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