new Delhi. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday attached assets worth Rs 2.14 crore in a money laundering case related to the disproportionate assets of Mangalore Refineries and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL) Mangaluru Deputy General Manager Niranjan Gupta and his wife Preeti Gupta. An ED official said the attached property is in the form of two residential flats located in Kulai, Mangaluru and that Gupta and his wife have shares in demat accounts.
Initially, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registered a case against the accused under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
The CBI in its FIR had alleged that from 2012 to 2018, the accused had amassed huge assets, both movable and immovable, in the name of himself and his wife, which were disproportionate to their known sources of income.
Later, the ED also started the PMLA probe based on the FIR registered by the CBI. During investigation, the ED came to know that the couple had deposited huge amounts of cash in their bank accounts from unexplained sources.
Further investigation is on in the matter.
—AnyTV News
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