The Enforcement Directorate has provisionally attached assets worth Rs 6.32 crore of Somyendra Nath Banerjee, the then Deputy Director General, New Technology, Department of Telecommunications (DoT), Kolkata and his associates in a money laundering case linked to disproportionate assets case.
The attached assets are in the form of one office premises, two vacant plots of land, one three-storied commercial building along with plant and machinery of a running company, balance lying in 47 bank accounts, two vehicles, shares held in Demat accounts and two Demand Drafts, the ED said in a statement.
The ED had initiated money laundering investigation on the basis of FIR registered by CBI, ACB, Kolkata under Indian Penal Code Section relating to abetment and corruption under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
As per the charge-sheet filed by CBI, ACB, Kolkata, Soumyendra Nath Banerjee had amassed huge assets beyond his known source of income.
