New Delhi: Actors Dino Morea and Sanjay Khan were among those whose assets were attached by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).
ED said a provisional order was issued under Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) to attach assets worth Rs 8.79 crore of four people, the other two being DJ Aqeel and late Congress leader Ahmed Patel’s son-in-law Irfan Ahmed Siddiqui.
The value of assets attached in a money-laundering case involving pharmaceutical company Sterling Biotech group are — Rs 3 crore for Sanjay Khan, Rs 1.4 crore for Dino, Rs 1.98 crore for Aqeel and Rs 2.41 crore for Siddiqui.
ED said in a statement also said that Nitin Sandesara and Chetan Sandesara, absconding promoters of the Sterling Biotech group, have “diverted” proceeds of crime to these four people.
The promoters Sandesara brothers, Chetan’s wife Dipti Sandesara and one Hitesh Patel have been declared fugitive economic offenders by a special court, ED informed.
The money-laundering case pertains to the alleged Rs 14,500-crore bank-loan fraud said to have been perpetrated by Sterling Biotech and its main promoters and directors.
