The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached 90 immovable properties worth ₹51.40 crore belonging to two Congress MLAs, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) official, and others, in connection with the alleged coal levy extortion scam in Chhattisgarh, the agency said on may 9.
Through a statement, the ED said that among the assets attached under the Prevention of Laundering Act (PMLA) were luxury vehicles, jewellery and cash linked to MLAs Devender Yadav and Chandradev Prasad Rai; IAS official Ranu Sahu; businessman and “kingpin” Suryakant Tiwari; R. P. Singh, Vinod Tiwari, and Ram Gopal Agarwal.
The agency alleged that there was direct evidence of financial linkages of the other persons with Mr. Tiwari. It had earlier attached properties worth ₹170 crore related to him, IAS official Sameer Vishnoi, Chhattisgarh Civil Service officer Saumya Chaurasia, businessman Sunil Agrawal, and others.
