The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached a palatial house worth Rs 3.64 crore of honey-trap and extortion racket main accused Archana Nag at Satya Vihar here.
Earlier, the ED had seized a Ford Endeavour and a Mahindra Thar SUV worth Rs 56.5 lakh of Archana and her husband Jagabandhu Chand under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
The ED had registered an enforcement case information report (ECIR) for taking up investigation under the PMLA against Archana and Jagabandhu and their aides Shradhanjali Behera and Khageswar Patra on the basis of two separate FIRs filed by the Commissionerate police.
As per the FIRs, Archana and Jagabandhu in nexus with Shradhanjali and Khageswar amassed huge properties by enticing bigwigs and then filming their private moments. They then blackmailed the victims by threatening to make the videos public.
The case came to the fore when a complaint was filed against film producer Akshay Parija accusing him of sexually exploiting a woman. Following the complaint, some obscene pictures of Parija with the woman went viral on social media.
Later, Parija too lodged an complaint alleging that Archana and Shradhanjali demanded of Rs 3 crore from him.
Many politicians, businessmen, film producers and realtors fell prey to Archana’s honey-trap racket.
Archana, Jagabandhu and Khageswar have been arrested in this case.