New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday informed that assets worth Rs 61.38 crore have been attached under the anti-money laundering law in a probe against Bhushan Steel Limited and Bhushan Energy Limited. The federal investigation agency issued a provisional order under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) to attach the properties.
‘The attached assets consist of agricultural land in Raigad, Maharashtra, warehouses in entities under the control of erstwhile promoters of BSL (Bhushan Steel Limited)’, the agency said in a statement. It said that the investigation found that former promoters of BSL, Neeraj Singal, B B Singal and others diverted funds from BSL through an elaborate and complex web of transactions, by way of routing public funds in the garb of unsecured loans given by Bhushan Energy Limited to their associate companies, which were ultimately utilised for acquisition of various immovable properties. It further alleged that ‘the elaborate and complex web of transaction was structured to project these assets as untainted’.
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The ED case of money laundering against the accused companies and promoters was lodged after studying an August, 2019 compliant of Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO), an agency under the corporate affairs ministry.
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