ED attaches assets of Jharkhand Naxal operative
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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday said it has attached assets worth over ₹ 2 crore of a Jharkhand-based Maoist operative as part of a money laundering probe against him and others.
The frozen assets are in the form of vehicles and are held in the name of Bindeshwar Ganjhu alias Bindu Ganjhu and his firm Maa Gange coal trading pvt. ltd.
The central probe agency said its criminal case against Ganjhu and others, under various sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), is linked to the extremists collecting funds through extortion of contractors, coal traders, coal transporters in the Magadh-Amrapali coal block area of Jharkhand. The state police and the National Investigation Agency (NIA) are also probing the accused and have filed multiple charge sheets against them.