India’s Enforcement Directorate intensified its money-laundering crackdown between 10 and 12 June, launching asset seizures, raids and prosecutions across at least five states under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. In Karnataka, the agency provisionally attached 92 plots tied to the Mysuru Urban Development Authority land-allotment scam. The Rs 100-crore seizure raises total confiscations in the case to roughly Rs 400 crore. Investigators in Maharashtra seized agricultural land, flats, shops and a bungalow valued at Rs 33.89 crore from real-estate developer Jayesh Vinodkumar Tanna and associates in an alleged Mumbai housing fraud. In a separate action, the ED said it had restored assets worth Rs 52.35 crore—estimated to exceed Rs 120 crore at market prices—in the Shakti Bhog Foods case. The agency filed a supplementary prosecution complaint in the long-running PACL ponzi probe, naming Harsatinder Pal Singh Hayer and others. The PACL investigation involves investor losses estimated at about Rs 48,000 crore. In Haryana, former Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Ram Niwas Surjakhera and former state urban-development official Sunil Kumar Bansal were arrested over an alleged Rs 72-crore value-added-tax fraud linked to Haryana Shahari Vikas Pradhikaran bank accounts. Separately, officials searched around 24 premises in Rajasthan and Gujarat and registered an Enforcement Case Information Report against the Nexa Evergreen group, accused of duping investors of roughly Rs 2,700 crore by promising high returns and land near Dholera city. The flurry of actions underscores the federal agency’s broadened use of asset attachment, prosecution complaints and arrests to fast-track high-value money-laundering investigations spanning real estate, food processing and investment-marketing schemes.
ED raids 24 locations in Raj, Guj in ₹2,700 Cr Nexa Evergreen money laundering case https://t.co/iJnNoYPoxR Neeraj Chauhan ✍️
The #EnforcementDirectorate on Thursday conducted searches in Rajasthan and Gujarat as part of a money laundering investigation into an alleged ₹2,700 crore fraud with investors, official sources said. https://t.co/X7sVjZFkEv
The #EnforcementDirectorate on Wednesday said it has arrested a former MLA and a former Haryana Shahari Vikas Pradhikaran officer in an alleged money laundering case. https://t.co/yt2nHQB7pN