Enforcement Directorate attaches RS 100 crore assets of former Jharkhand Minister Anosh Ekka

NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate ( ED) today attached properties estimated worth is Rs 100 crore of former Jharkhand Minister Anosh Ekka in connection with its money laundering probe against him based on a disproportionate assets complaint.

Ekka, a former Rural Development Minister in Chief Minister Madhu Koda's cabinet, has been under the scanner of the agency for the last three years after multiple agencies initiated investigations against Koda and his cabinet colleagues.

The agency today attached a farm house property alleged to have been procured by Ekka in posh Hauz Khas area of Delhi apart from a building floor in Vasant Vihar, a property in Sushant Lok area in Gurgaon and a flat in Ranchi, ED sources said.

The ED order said the estimated value of the assets, seized under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), have an estimated value of over Rs 3.66 crore when they were purchased years ago but now the market value of these real estate properties have been valued by the central agency at Rs 100 crore.

The agency had earlier attached Ekka's and his associates' assets worth Rs 8 crore in the same case.

CBI had earlier accused Ekka, his wife and others of possessing disproportionate wealth of Rs 17 crore, allegedly acquired during his ministerial term in the Koda regime between 2006 and 2008.

The agency today dispatched the attachment orders to Ekka in Ranchi in Jharkhand.