ED attaches bank deposits, properties of Udhayanidhi Stalin Foundation
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday said that they have attached immovable properties worth Rs.36.3 crore and seized Rs.34.7 lakh lying in the bank account of the Udayanidhi Stalin Foundation in Tamil Nadu. The firm is accused of receiving the proceeds of crime amounting to Rs.1 crore.
The trustees of Udayanidhi Stalin Foundation failed to explain the rational for the above receipt from the parties involved in the case. Thus, total Proceeds of Crime in the said case is around Rs.300 crores of which immovable properties valued at Rs.36.3 crore and movable properties in form of bank account with available balance of Rs.34.7 lakh have been attached.
The ED’s probe had revealed that the fraud was actually of an amount of Rs.300 crore as the Lyca Group had also made other investments/ loans to the accused group and its entities without any due diligence or rationale.
The search operations led to the recovery of various incriminating evidences in form of digital evidences, documents, properties, suspicious cash and hawala transactions which is still under ED’s scanner.
The ED initiated PMLA investigations based on an FIR registered by Central Crime Branch-I, Chennai. In the FIR, it was alleged that the complainant, Gaurav Chachra, Director of Pettigo Comercio Internacional Lda, a subsidiary of the UK-based Lyca Group having significant presence in India in form of Lyca Productions, Lyca Hotels, had been defrauded of Rs.114.37 crore by the Kallal Group and its directors Saravanan Palaniappan, Vijaykumaran, Aravinth Raj and Vijay Ananth along with, Lakshmi Muthuraman and Preetha Vijayananth.
The ED also conducted a search operations at the premises of the accused and the complainants.
[With Inputs from IANS]
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