RAIPUR: The enforcement directorate on Tuesday in a statement said that the central agency during its recent searches and investigations has provisionally attached properties and assets worth Rs 221.5 crore, belonging to IAS officer Ranu Sahu, Congress MLAs Chandradeo Rai and Devendra Yadav and businessman Suryakant Tiwari.
ED has released photos of ornaments and lands attached.
Earlier, the central agency maintained that it has found direct evidence of financial linkages of the said people with “kingpin” Suryakant Tiwari in alleged coal levy scam and assets were identified for attachment. The central agency released a statement on its Twitter handle stating, “ED has provisionally attached 90 immovable properties, luxurious vehicles, jewellery and cash worth Rs 51.40 crore belonging to IAS officer Sahu, businessman Suryakant Tiwari, MLAs Devendra Yadav, Chandradeo Rai and others in coal levy extortion scam in Chhattisgarh. The total attachment in this case has reached Rs 221.5 crore.” The agency had earlier attached assets of IAS officer Sameer Vishnoi and powerful state service bureaucrat Saumya Chaurasia.
ED in Chhattisgarh has been investigating money laundering cases related to illegal coal levy and liquor scam and had alleged that the scams tune to amount of Rs 500 crore and Rs 2,000 crore respectively. ED maintained that a whole cartel of business, senior bureaucrats, politicians are involved in the multi-crore scam. ED officials recently arrested Anwar Dhebar, brother of Congress mayor Aijaz Dhebar in alleged liquor scam who is presently on a four-day ED custody.
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