The announcement by ED comes a day after Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel took a jibe at the central agency, saying it has found nothing in the coal levy case and the liquor scam is a cooked-up story.
The properties frozen also belong to IAS officer Ranu Sahu, coal trader and prime accused in the case Suryakant Tiwari apart from state Congress spokesperson R P Singh and local party leader Vinod Tiwari.
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The ED announcement comes one day after Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel flayed the central agency, saying it found nothing in the coal levy case and the liquor scam story has been.
The ED raids pertain to a massive scam wherein an illegal levy of Rs 25 was allegedly being extorted for every tonne of coal transported in Chhattisgarh, with businessman Suryakant Tiwari as the main accused.