Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], October 20 (ANI): The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday seized Rs 1.65 crore in cash and recovered 44.5 bitcoin (equivalent to Rs 7.12 crore as per market exchange rate) on two premises in Kolkata, pertaining to the case of a mobile gaming application -- E-Nuggets.

New Delhi, September 22 (ANI): The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached properties worth Rs 147.81 crore belonging to real estate company Gupta Builders and Promoters (GBPPL), its directors and their associates, the agency said on Thursday.

New Delhi Feb 18 PTI Properties worth about Rs 25 crore of a Tamil Nadu-based criminal charged with multiple cases of murder extortion and dacoity have been attached under the anti-money laundering law the ED said on Friday Seventy nine land assets located in sub-urban Chennai belonging to and in the benami names of PPGD Sankar have been attached it said The market value of these properties is around Rs 25 crore Sankar faces at least 15 police FIRs and three chargesheets for offences like murder extortion robbery dacoity and criminal conspiracy the Enforcement Directorate said in a statement ED unearthed various benami properties of PPGD Sankar which were purchased by him out of cash generated from extortionhe could not explain any legal source of cash payments for acquiring the property and confessed during the course of investigation that such money which was used by him to acquire 79 properties was not generated from any legal business but by extortion of various people over the period of time the ED claimed The accused it said adopted a unique model of projecting the proceeds of crime by registering the properties by way of general power of attorney GPA in his name and keeping the ownership in his benami names in the official documents The GPA was used as an alternative for sale deeds He had made the payment for such properties but did not register the properties in his name to safeguard himself as there are many cases by police going on against him it said PTI NES RCJ RCJ

New Delhi Jan 18 PTI The Enforcement Directorate ED on Tuesday seized Rs 6 crore in cash including Rs 4 crore from the premises linked to a nephew of Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi during raids against illegal sand mining operatives in the border state officials said The search operations at a dozen locations in Mohali Chandigarh Ludhiana and Pathankot began early morning with an armed CRPF escort and were underway Sources said out of the total seizure of about Rs 6 crore in cash about Rs 4 crore has been seized from the Ludhiana premises of Channis nephew Bhupinder Singh alias Honey Channi has told reporters that the raids were an attempt to put pressure on him and his ministers as the polling day drew near He said relatives of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee were raided during the assembly polls in that state and the same pattern is being followed by the ED in Punjab to pressure him his ministers and Congress party members Voting for 117 assembly seats in Punjab is slated on February 20 PTI NES SKL SMN SMN

New Delhi Nov 23 PTI The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday said it has attached assets worth Rs 144 crore in connection with its money laundering probe into the alleged insurance medical scheme scam in Telangana The agency has issued a provisional order under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act PMLA to attach 131 immovable assets These include 97 plots six villas 18 commercial shops six agricultural lands and four flats in Hyderabad and some other locations in Telangana Andhra Pradesh Bengaluru and Noida The Enforcement Directorate ED has also attached movable assets in the form of securities and fixed deposits It said in a statement that the total value of these properties is Rs 1444 crore and they have been acquired by the accused The money laundering case was filed by the ED after studying eight FIRs registered by the Telangana anti-corruption bureau ACB against insurance medical scheme IMS officials and private persons including medicines suppliers for violations in tendering process misappropriation of government funds and causing loss to the state exchequer to the tune of more than Rs 211 crore It said the then IMS director Dr Devika Rani in collusion with the joint director and other staff of IMS blatantly violated all norms of government orders and all prudent office procedures and issued purchase orders to firms mostly belonging to supplier K Srihari Babu and also benami firms set up by Dr Rani P Rajeshwar Reddy etc Medical items were purchased at grossly inflated prices Indents of dispensaries were fabricated and stock registers were fabricated to siphon off the medicines Joint director Dr K Padma was found to be siphoning off medicines and supplies in the name of medical camps the ED alleged Patented products it said in the statement were sold in a cyclical manner and ultimately purchased by IMS at four to five times their normal market rate Dr Rani pharmacist Nagalaxmi and their families in order to layer and conceal the bribe money entered into a conspiracy with PMJ Jewellers and over a period of one year regularly channelled their bribe money and purchased jewellery worth about Rs 628 crore from the proceeds of crime the agency said The ED claimed its probe found that Rani Nagalaxmi and their families gave large cash advances to purchase prime real estate Cash was also deposited in their bank accounts at regular intervals and once layered the same was used to buy immovable properties the ED said PTI NES ANB ANB

New Delhi [India], November 23 (ANI): The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday attached assets worth Rs 144.4 crore in connection with Telangana Insurance Medical Scheme (IMS) scam.