The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached the properties of Saravana Stores (Gold Palace) Chennai and ‘Lottery’ Santiago Martin in two different cases.
In the first case, it attached the properties worth ₹234.75 crore in a money laundering case filed for defrauding Indian Bank. The ED initiated an investigation under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002, based on an FIR (April 25, 2022) registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Economic Offences Wing, Chennai. And the ED recorded the case in May 2022 under the PMLA.