New Delhi, Dec. 10 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday said it has attached six immovable properties valued at Rs 2.03 crore pertaining to an ongoing investigation against Uttar Pradesh's Ghazipur-based Vikas Construction, an entity operated by late mafia don-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari and his associates.

The attached properties are held in the name of Shadab Ahmed, a close associate of Ansari, and his wife. This is the fourth attachment order issued in the case. Total attachment in this case so far stands at Rs 8.43 crore.

ED said its probe revealed that Vikas Construction allegedly encroached upon government land in Raini village in Uttar Pradesh's Mau district, where an illegal godown was constructed, followed by a...