[ad_1] RAIPUR: The Economic Offence Wing (EOW) on Tuesday filed its charge sheet in connection with irregularities in the District Mineral Fund (DMF) in Chhattisgarh’s Korba district, alleging that the officials did not select vendors on merit but their willingness to pay bribes. The 6,000-page chargesheet mentioned nine names. (Representative file image) Among the state government officials named in EOW’s 6,000-page charge sheet are former Korba collector Ranu Sahu, former deputy secretary at then chief minister Bhupesh Baghel’s office Saumya Chaurasia, and Maya Warrior, assistant commissioner at the Tribal Development Department. The other accused include Suryakant Tiwari, an influential businessman in the coal industry, Maya Warrior, assistant commissioner, Tribal Development Dept and several vendors and contractors such as Sanjay Shende, Rishabh Soni, Manoj Kumar Dwivedi, Mukesh Agrawal, and Ashok Agrawal who are currently in jail in Raipur. The EOW probe stems from a report submitted by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), Raipur, under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), which led to the registration of FIR on January 16, 2024. EOW said the DMF was …