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New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday attached properties of Nalini Chidambaram, former CPI(M) MLA Devendranath Vishwas and others in the Saradha money laundering case. Nalini Chidambaram is the wife of senior Congress leader and former Finance Minister P Chidambaram.
The ED said it has recovered more than Rs 6 crore from “beneficiaries” such as Nalini Chidambaram, wife of former Union finance minister and Congress leader P Chidambaram, former CPM MLA Devendranath Biswas and former Assam minister late Anjan Dutta’s company in the Saradha money laundering case. The property of is attached.
The agency said in a statement that a provisional order for attachment of movable assets worth Rs 3.30 crore and immovable assets worth Rs 3 crore has been issued under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). These properties were owned by the Saradha group and others, who were the beneficiaries of the “proceeds of crime” earned on behalf of the group.
The ED said the “beneficiaries” include Nalini Chidambaram, Debabrata Sarkar (East Bengal Club official), Devendranath Biswas (former IPS officer and former CPM MLA) and Anubhuti Printers and Publications, a former Assam cabinet minister and Congress leader Anjan Dutta owned. The money laundering case pertains to the alleged chit fund scam in 2013 by the Saradha Group in West Bengal, Assam and Odisha.
ED said that the total amount of money raised by this group company is about Rs 2,459 crore, out of which about Rs 1,983 crore is still outstanding to the depositors excluding interest amount. The Enforcement Directorate has so far attached assets worth Rs 600 crore in this case.
