India, June 12 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday provisionally attached properties worth Rs.33.80 crore belonging to builder Jayesh Tanna and his family members, and associate firms and companies, under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002. Tanna has been accused of cheating flat buyers in his projects in DN Nagar, Andheri, Kandivali and Goregaon.

The attached assets are in the form of agricultural land, residential flats, commercial tenements and bungalows in various parts of Mumbai and Ahmednagar district.

ED had initiated the money laundering investigation on the basis of multiple FIRs registered by Mumbai police under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, against Jayesh Vinodk...