Directorate of Enforcement (ED) officials on Wednesday carried out a search operation on a sprawling property on Karur-Coimbatore Road in Karur, where V. Ashok Kumar, brother of jailed Tamil Nadu Minister V. Senthilbalaji, is allegedly building a bungalow. The search is being carried out as Mr. Senthilbalaji is subjected to interrogation in Chennai after being taken into five-day custody by ED officials. He was arrested in a money laundering case on June 14.
Accompanied by Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel, the ED officials, took over the property on Karur-Coimbatore Road, measuring about 2.5 acres, around 1 p.m, and began the search in the half-finished structures.
The officials were said to have engaged a team of certified engineers, valuers and surveyors to measure the structures to figure out the estimated cost of the construction. According to sources, the officials tried to contact Mr. Ashok Kumar and his wife Nirmala over phone to ask them to be present at the property but did not get a response.
