New Delhi

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday said it has attached fresh assets worth Rs 7.44 crore of companies “beneficially owned and controlled” by AAP leader and former Delhi minister Satyendar Jain as part of an alleged “benami” assets-linked money-laundering case. The action came after the Delhi High Court ruled in an income-tax department case recently that the AAP leader’s close associates — Ankush Jain and Vaibhav Jain — were his “benami holders” and deposited Rs 7.44 crore “in cash” at the Bank of Baroda’s Bhogal branch here as advance tax under the Income Disclosure Scheme (IDS) of 2016.

“The Supreme Court dismissed their (the accused) SLPs and review petitions, rendering the finding (of the HC) final,” the ED said. The IDS of 2016 was bought by the Union government,

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