ED attaches 92 additional properties in MUDA case
New Delhi, June 11 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached 92 immovable Mysuru Urban Development Authority (Muda) sites valued at Rs.100 crore in connection with its money laundering probe into irregularities in land allotment by Muda, the agency said on Tuesday.
Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah and his wife BM Parvati are under the ED scanner in the case.
"ED Bengaluru Zone has provisionally attached 92 immovable properties (Muda sites) having market value of Rs.100 crore (approximately) on Monday under the provisions of the prevention of money laundering act (PMLA) in connection with the Muda case. The attached properties are registered in the name of entities such as housing cooperative society and individuals who are front or dummy for influential persons including Muda officials," ED said in a statement on Tuesday.
ED's probe is based on a Karnataka Lokayukta first information report (FIR), which was closed by the state's anti-corruption body in February this year saying the allegations against Siddaramaiah, his wife Parvathi M, and two others could not be substantiated due to insufficient evidence.
The financial crimes probe agency has already filed a protest petition before a special court in Bengaluru.
The ED, in a statement, said, it initiated an investigation on the basis of an FIR registered by the Lokayukta Police, Mysuru under various sections of IPC and Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.P4...
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