New Delhi: The ED on Saturday said it has arrested a Delhi-based freelance journalist in connection with a money laundering probe linked to alleged leakage and supply of sensitive information to Chinese intelligence officers.
Freelance journalist Rajeev Sharma was arrested under the criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) on July 1 and produced before a local court here on Friday.
he court granted the Enforcement Directorate (ED) seven days’ custody of Sharma, the central probe agency said in a statement.
The agency said its probe found that 62-year-old Sharma “had supplied confidential and sensitive information to Chinese intelligence officers, in exchange for remuneration thereby compromising the security and national interests of India”.