Enforcement Directorate arrested businessman Abhishek Verma and his wife today in connection with a money laundering case registered against the couple for allegedly receiving money from a Swiss defence firm to keep it out of the government's blacklist.

An ED team recorded the statement of the couple, presently in judicial custody in a forgery case, before they were placed under arrest under the stringent provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

They were remanded in 14 days judicial custody by a court yesterday in a forgery case registered on Union Minister Ajay Maken's complaint.

Earlier, both the accused had been granted bail on August 8 in a corruption case registered by the CBI for allegedly receiving five lakh thirty thousand US Dollars from Rheinmetall Air Defence AG (RAD) for using his influence to stall its blacklisting proceedings by Indian government.