The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has provisionally attached 90 immovable properties, luxurious vehicles, jewellery and cash worth Rs 51.40 crore belongs to an IAS officer, two Congress legislators and others in an alleged coal levy extortion scam in Chhattisgarh, it was announced on Tuesday.
The agency attached the properties of the IAS officer Ranu Sahu, Suryakant Tiwari, MLAs Devender Yadav and Chandradev Prasad Rai, R.P. Singh, Vinod Tiwari and Ram Gopal Agarwal, the ED said.
During investigation, direct evidence of the financial linkages of the above persons with Suryakant Tiwari were established and assets created by layering of the proceeds of crime or equivalent assets have been identified for attachment, a statement said .
Earlier, the ED had attached properties worth Rs 170 crore belonging to Suryakant Tiwari, Sameer Vishnoi IAS, Saumya Chaurasia (Chhattisgarh Civil Service), Sunil Agarwal and others. The total attachment in this case has reached Rs 221.5 crore, it said.
