The Enforcement Directorate has attached a fresh estimated Rs. 100 crore assets of a borrower company and its associates in connection with money laundering probe in the National Spot Exchange Limited (NSEL) scam case.
The agency's latest action, under Prevention of Money Laundering (PMLA) laws, had been taken against the borrower company and its two group companies, which owe the investors Rs. 922 crores, sources said.
The ED had earlier attached Rs. 75 crore assets belonging to the same firms. The latest attachment of about Rs. 100 crore includes properties in Delhi and national capital region.
The firms are one of the largest borrowers in the businesses of this exchange.
The ED is probing the case alongside the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Mumbai Police.
The agency had conducted searches on the premises of the company on 31 October and had sealed a number of them in cities like Mumbai, national capital region, Lucknow, Punjab and Chandigarh.
A flat in Delhi's Jor Bagh area, a villa in Gurgaon, a farmhouse in Kapashera, a flat in Mumbai and few other locations in the NCR were searched and have been attached under the latest action, sources said. (PTI / NDTV)
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