The Enforcement Directorate has filed a supplementary chargesheet before a special PMLA court in Ranchi against Dinesh Gope, the self-styled chief of the banned People’s Liberation Front of India (PLFI), and 19 others in a Rs 20 crore money-laundering and terror-funding case, officials said on Saturday.The ED probe found that Gope ran a criminal enterprise that extorted money from contractors, transporters and businessmen in Jharkhand and neighbouring states. The agency has traced Rs 3.36 crore of the suspected proceeds of crime so far.

Investigators said Gope laundered the funds through a network of shell companies controlled by his wives, Shakuntala Kumari and Hira Devi, which only existed on paper.

“The extortion cash was deposited in these entities, routed through hawala channels and

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