Overview
- ED teams searched eight Kolkata sites Wednesday in a money-laundering probe into alleged syndicate leader Biswajit Poddar, seizing about Rs 1.2 crore in cash and a country-made pistol in a case that centers on land grabbing and illegal construction linked to extortion.
- A special PMLA court ordered restitution of 455 PACL properties worth about Rs 15,582 crore to the Supreme Court-appointed Lodha Committee, which the ED disclosed Monday to advance refunds to lakhs of investors.
- The agency provisionally attached assets worth Rs 271.48 crore linked to former Lodha Developers director Rajendra Narpatmal Lodha, taking total seizures in that case to about Rs 359.48 crore, with Lodha in judicial custody after a February arrest.
- In Jharkhand, investigators filed a fourth supplementary chargesheet in the Khunti MNREGA funds case alleging Rs 18.06 crore was siphoned through sham works, and they lodged a prosecution complaint in a Ranchi water-department fraud that allegedly diverted Rs 22.86 crore using fake payee IDs and dormant DDO codes.
- In a GST input tax credit case, the ED on March 30 attached Rs 14.85 crore in assets across Howrah, Hooghly and Guwahati and filed a charge sheet against 15 accused for allegedly generating Rs 99.31 crore in fake credits through shell firms.