The Enforcement Directorate on Monday attached a sugar mill and 290 acres of prime land worth Rs 55 crore in Nashik district in Maharashtra. The ED’s action relates to a money laundering probe against former PWD minister and NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal and others.
The agency issued a provisional attachment order, under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act against these assets, which are owned by Bhujbal’s firm Armstrong Infrastructure.
The ED, official sources said, has also put prohibitory orders on the running factory, identified as Girna Sugar mill, and the land located adjacent to it. This is the fourth attachment order issued by the agency in the case and it has already attached assets, both movable and immovable, worth Rs 280 crore earlier.
An attachment order under PMLA laws is aimed to deprive the accused from obtaining benefits of their alleged ill-gotten wealth. The accused parties can appeal against the order before the Adjudicating Authority of the said Act within 180 days.
Bhujbal, along with his ex-Member of Parliament nephew Samir have been arrested in the case by the ED earlier and they are at present in jail.