The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has provisionally attached properties worth ₹29.45 crore of the Alchemist group companies in connection with a money laundering case.
The group was headed by Kanwar Deep Singh, a former Rajya Sabha member of the All India Trinamool Congress, the agency said on March 30. Earlier this month, it had attached ₹10.29 crore belonging to the TMC in the same case.
“ED investigation also revealed that an amount of ₹10.29 crore was paid by Alchemist Airways Private Limited to various aviation/helicopter companies for the aviation services availed by All India Trinamool Congress (AITC)...during the campaigning for 2014 Lok Sabha elections for its star campaigners like Mamata Banerjee, CM of West Bengal; Mukul Roy, ex-Union Railway Minister; Moon Moon Sen, Nusrat Jahan, MP, TMC, etc.,” it had said.