The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has provisionally attached assets having total book value Rs 18.14 crore belonging to two benami entities of Ajay Chandra and Sanjay Chandra in a money laundering case against the Unitech builder.
The attached properties include one multiplex in Gurugram, six commercial properties in Gurugram and Lucknow and 24 bank accounts/ FDRs (Fixed Deposit Receipts.“These assets are held in the name of Enova Facility Management Services Private Limited and FNM property Services Private Limited which are benami entities of Chandras,” the ED said in a
statement.
The ED had initiated money laundering investigation on the basis of various FIRs filed by homebuyers against Unitech Group and its promoters by Delhi Police and CBI. Total Proceeds of Crime detected by ED in this case is Rs 7,638.43 crore. Investigation by the ED has revealed that these two benami entities were managed by Chandras through their close confidants and the assets attached were acquired /created from the Proceeds of Crime diverted from Unitech Group. With this attachment, the total attachment in this case has touched Rs 690.66 crore.
Three persons have also been arrested in this case, it added.