The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has provisionally attached properties estimated to be ₹73.43 lakh under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) against former Uttar Pradesh MLA Mukhtar Ansari and others, said the agency on Saturday. The ED alleged that Ansari usurped government land and built a warehouse on it and later rented the warehouse to Food Corporation of India Limited (FCI).
The attached properties include a land measuring 1,538 sq. ft. in Ghazipur district of Uttar Pradesh and a commercial building constructed over it; and another plot of land measuring 6,020 sq. ft. in Mau.