The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday said it has issued a fresh attachment order to freeze assets worth Rs 67 crore as part of its money-laundering probe against banned terrorist organisation Popular Front of India (PFI).

The federal probe agency, in a statement, said these properties were “beneficially owned and controlled” by the PFI and held in the name of various trusts, apart from that of its political front—Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI).

The Centre banned the PFI in September 2022, after coordinated raids were carried out by the ED, National Investigation Agency (NIA) and various state police forces, calling it an unlawful association that indulged in terror activities.

The SDPI was founded in 2009. It is also registered as a political party with the Election Com

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