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The attached properties include land, commercial spaces, plots, residential houses, and bank accounts, according to a statement issued by the federal agency on Saturday. 

Digital Desk: As part of a money laundering inquiry, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached assets worth more than Rs 1,317 crore belonging to real estate group IREO, its managing director and vice president Lalit Goyal, and associated entities.

The attached properties include land, commercial spaces, plots, residential houses, and bank accounts, according to a statement issued by the federal agency on Saturday. These attached properties are worth a total of Rs 1,317.30 crore. To file a money laundering case, the ED took cognizance of at least 30 FIRs filed in various police stations in Gurugram, Panchkula, Ludhiana, and Delhi against the group, linked entities, directors, key managerial personnel, and others.

The investigation revealed that the accused allegedly "duped" innocent buyers by promising them to deliver flats, plots, commercial spaces, etc. However, they neither delivered the projects nor returned their money.  The directors of the company in connivance with others "siphoned off" money collected from buyers and did not use for the intended purpose.

According to the ED, they sent this money outside India in the form of share buybacks, redemptions, FCDs, and loans and advances to associated entities/persons, as well as giving excessive incentives and advances to key managerial personnel to "fudge" the books of account, who then invested it in purchasing immovable properties and shares of various companies both within and outside the country. In this case, the agency arrested Goyal in November of last year and later filed a charge sheet before a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in Panchkula in January.

 

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