The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has provisionally attached 34 immovable properties, including Mysore Urban Development Authority (MUDA) sites, having a market value of Rs 40.08 crore in Karnataka under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, in connection with the MUDA scam case.

The properties were attached following the raid conducted on Saturday, ED said on Monday. The action comes two weeks after it arrested former MUDA commissioner GT Dinesh Kumar, who allegedly handed over the authority’s properties to friends and relatives and later acquired them for his own real estate business interests.

ED has till now attached properties worth Rs 440 crore in the case.

The Central agency initiated an investigation last year based on a First Information Rep

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