The Enforcement Directorate on Monday provisionally attached immovable properties worth Rs 38.21 crore belonging to former Indian Administrative Service officer Niranjan Das and 30 other excise department officials in connection with the alleged Chhattisgarh liquor scam.
The attachment was made under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002, as part of the investigation into the alleged scam, the Enforcement Directorate said in a social media post.
The attached assets include 78 immovable properties, such as bungalows, flats in premium complexes, commercial shops and agricultural land.
The agency has also attached 197 movable assets such as fixed deposits, balances in multiple bank accounts, life insurance policies, and investments in equity shares and mutual funds.
The ED has alleged that between 2019 and 2022, a syndicate of senior bureaucrats, politicians and excise department officials operated a parallel excise system in Chhattisgarh, selling illegal liquor, resulting in an alleged loss of Rs 2,883 crore to the state exchequer.
It added that Das alone allegedly earned more than Rs 18 crore in illegal commissions, while the 31 excise officials together acquired proceeds of crime worth Rs 89.56 crore.
Separately, the Enforcement Directorate’s Raipur office filed a supplementary chargesheet on December 26, naming 81 persons as accused in a final prosecution complaint submitted before the special PMLA court in Raipur.
Those named are former Indian Administrative Service...
