The Assam Rifles (AR) along with the Nagaland Police on Monday arrested the wife of ‘colonel’ of NSCN (IM) Rayilung Nsarangbe who is accused to have withdrawn Rs 4 crore from Rayilung’s bank account a day after his arrest by a joint team of security forces. This was reported by the Deccan Chronicle.
The security forces had also recovered a cash amount of about Rs. 1.59 crore and two kilogram of RDX with a large number of arms and ammunitions from the residence of top NSCN (IM) leader Rayilung who happens to be the close associate of NSCN (IM) general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah.
The investigation of the case has now been handed over to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) as confession by a pastor Rabi Pame, arrested with Rs. 11 lakh cash, revealed that an IAS officer of Manipur was also involved in financial transaction being diverted from government funds and projects (PMGSY, NREGA etc.) and other construction works going on in Manipur and Nagaland.
Security sources told the Deccan Chronicle that scale of corruption could be realized by the fact, Rayilung who is a self-style colonel level worker of NSCN (IM) had acquired 800-acre land and was in possession of Rs. 5.59 crore. Indicating that NIA was trying to trace the recipient of Rs. 4 crore that Rayilung managed to withdraw from the bank with the help of his wife, security sources said that the NIA investigation would open the Pandora’s box of the ongoing extortion and loot of public money in Nagaland and Manipur.
Admitting that some forces deliberately delayed the NIA’s entry into the investigation, security sources said that NIA team had arrived Dimapur on July 6 to be the part of investigation but in the name of COVID formalities they could not join investigation.
Security sources said that a day after on July 7 Rayilung managed to withdraw Rs. 4 crore from his bank account in Dimapur with the help of his wife.