Agencies / New Delhi
The Enforcement Directorate today on Tuesday attached properties worth over Rs 147 crore of fugitive jeweller Nirav Modi and his companies. He is an accused in the over 13 thousand crore rupees PNB scam.
The attached movable and immovable properties are located in Mumbai and Surat in Gujarat.
In a statement, the agency said, the properties comprise eight cars, plant and machinery, consignments of jewellery and some buildings.
The properties were attached by the ED under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. On the basis of an FIR registered by CBI, the ED had earlier registered a money laundering case against Nirav Modi and others in February last year.