ED arrests Gujarat-based journalist Mahesh Langa. What's the financial fraud case against him?

The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday arrested Mahesh Langa, a Gujarat-based senior journalist, in a money laundering investigation linked to an alleged financial fraud. The money laundering case against Mahesh Langa stems from two FIRs filed by the Ahmedabad Police on charges of committing fraud, criminal misappropriation, criminal breach of trust, cheating and causing wrongful loss of lakhs of rupees to certain people. {{^userSubscribed}} {{^usCountry}} {{/usCountry}} {{#usCountry}} {{/usCountry}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{^usCountry}} {{/usCountry}} {{#usCountry}} {{/usCountry}} {{/userSubscribed}} Mahesh Langa, who is a correspondent for The Hindu newspaper in Gujarat, was taken into custody and produced before a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act Court in Ahmedabad, the probe agency said in a statement. {{^userSubscribed}} {{^usCountry}} {{/usCountry}} {{#usCountry}} {{/usCountry}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{^usCountry}} {{/usCountry}} {{#usCountry}} {{/usCountry}} {{/userSubscribed}} “ED investigation revealed that Mahesh Prabhudan Langa was found to have engaged in multiple fraudulent financial transactions involving large sums of money. Mahesh Langa, according to the ED, has tried to manipulate and “obscure the true nature of financial transactions involved in cheating and GST Input Tax Credit scam”.