ED files charge sheet against Sanjeev Arora in money laundering case
Babushahi Network
Gurugram, July 11, 2026: Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed charge sheet against former Punjab Cabinet Minister Sanjeev Arora in money laundering case. In chargesheet, ED has alleged that Arora was mastermind of alleged fake iphone export scam.
According to ED, its probe revealed that Hampton Sky Realty Limited (HSRL, which is the co-accused in the case along with Arora, who is its promoter-director), formerly known as M/s Ritesh Properties and Industries Limited (RPIL), under the control and direction of the Sanjeev Arora, allegedly orchestrated a complex scheme of trade‑based money laundering through false and bogus mobile phone export transactions.
In the charge sheet, the ED alleged that under Arora's control and direction, the company routed funds through shell firms and entities without any genuine supply of goods. It created fictitious and operationally impossible supply chains of mobile phones with inflated values to fraudulently claim export money and GST benefits.
ED has alleged that Arora and his firm carried out the bogus trade by creating false domestic procurement trails, manipulating export documentation and customs processes, and integrating funds through export remittances, GST refunds and investments in group entities and immovable properties.
It alleged that HSRL purportedly purchased high-value Apple iPhones and other electronic devices from multiple supplier entities such as M/s SK Enterprises, M/s Global Traders, M/s Worldwide Electronics, M/s GMG TradelinkPvt. Ltd., M/s Shree Lakshmi Enterprises, M/s Mobile Style, M/s US Enterprises, M/s Anjani International, M/s Maruti Nandan Telecom LLP and others.
According to ED HSRL and its associates created a fabricated domestic procurement chain through shell entities.
ED has claimed that Sanjeev Arora was the key decision-maker behind the mobile phone export business operated by Hampton Sky Realty Limited, despite the company's primary business being in the real estate sector.