The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has provisionally attached 51 immovable properties worth Rs 17.48 crore in the illegal coal levy extortion scam of Chhattisgarh.
The attached properties include eight benami immovable properties worth Rs 7.57 crore which are beneficially owned by Saumya Chaurasia, Deputy Secretary to Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, and remaining 43 benami properties which are beneficially controlled by kingpin of the syndicate Suryakant Tiwari, the agency said in a statement.
In this case, the ED had earlier issued a Provisional Attachment Order on December 9, 2022 attaching properties worth Rs 152.31 crore belonging to Suryakant Tiwari, IAS officer Sameer Vishnoi, Chhattisgarh Civil Service Officer Saumya Chaurasia, Sunil Agarwal and others.
