LUCKNOW, Jan. 23 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has achieved a major procedural breakthrough in its money laundering probe against Yogesh Kumar Tiwari, with a special court in Lucknow taking cognisance of the prosecution complaint filed under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002. Tiwari posed as a prominent businessman and property dealer in Prayagraj to lure victims, promising high returns before fraudulently acquiring their properties and selling them to third parties. According to an official press release issued on Thursday, the ED's Allahabad sub-zonal office had filed the prosecution complaint on September 29, 2025, before the Special Court (CBI), West, Lucknow. The court took cognisance of the case on Wednesday, formally making Tiwari as an accused. The ED initiated its investigation on the basis of an FIR registered by the UP Police at Jhunsi police station in Prayagraj under various sections of the IPC, 1860, including cheating, forgery, criminal breach of trust and criminal intimidation. The probe revealed that the accused allegedly orchestrated a deliberate scheme to defraud the complainant by inducing him to transfer multiple immovable properties on false assurances of setting up development projects and offering future financial benefits. The ED has identified proceeds of crime worth approximately Rs.1.41 cr in the case. htc...