The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached properties worth Rs 7.44 crore linked to companies allegedly controlled by former Delhi minister and AAP leader Satyendar Kumar Jain.
The action was taken on September 15 under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002.
The agency’s money laundering probe stems from a CBI case filed in 2017, which accused Jain 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 him, his wife Poonam Jain, and others in December 2018.
In March 2022, the ED had earlier attached assets worth Rs 4.81 crore in the case and filed a prosecution complaint, which a Delhi court later took note of. With the latest action, the total attachment now