New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached properties worth Rs 7.44 crore linked to companies allegedly controlled by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and former Delhi minister Satyendar Jain.
The central agency attached the assets on September 15 under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002.
In March 2022, ED had attached assets worth Rs 4.81 crore, and filed a prosecution complaint which a Delhi court took note of. The total attachment of Jain’s assets now stand at Rs 12.25 crore, which the agency claims represents the entire value of disproportionate assets allegedly acquired by the tainted leader.
In May 2022, Jain was arrested by the ED on the charge of laundering money through four shell companies allegedly linked to him. The AAP leader was granted bail more than two years later by a Delhi court.
Jain had been under investigation following a case filed by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in 2017, accusing him of amassing disproportionate assets between February 2015 and May 2017 while serving as a minister in the AAP-led Delhi government.
The CBI filed a chargesheet against Jain, his wife Poonam Jain and others in December 2018.
