New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has provisionally attached immovable properties worth Rs 7.44 crore belonging to companies beneficially owned and controlled by former Delhi minister Satyendar Kumar Jain.

The action, carried out on September 15, comes under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002.

According to the ED, the case originates from a CBI FIR registered in August 2017 against Jain, his wife Poonam Jain, and others, alleging that the then Delhi minister amassed disproportionate assets between February 2015 and May 2017. The CBI filed its chargesheet in December 2018.

Earlier, on March 31, 2022, the ED had provisionally attached assets worth Rs 4.81 crore in the same matter. A prosecution complaint was filed in July 2022, which the court

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