The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has seized nine properties worth over Rs 65 crore belonging to Venkateshwara Hatcheries Pvt Ltd (VHPL) for allegedly making illegal foreign remittances to purchase a 90-acre house in the UK. The ED case involves remittances made by VHPL to its subsidiary, Venky s Overseas Limited (VOL), from 2011. VHPL had declared VOL s business as agriculture and mining, but no such activity was ever initiated.