Actor Dino Morrea. Photo Source, Dino Morrea’s Facebook page
Mumbai: Enforcement Directorate has provisionally attached 8 immovable properties, 3 vehicles and several bank accounts/shares/mutual funds having total value of Rs. 8.79 crore under provisions of Prevention of Money Laundering Act in Sandesara Group case.
These attached assets belonged to actor Dino Morea (Rs. 1.40 Crore), DJ Aqeel Abdulkhalil Bachooali ( Rs. 1.98 Crore), one Sanjay Khan ( Rs. 3 Crore), and Irfan Ahmed Siddiqui ( Rs.2.41 Crore). Siddiqui is son-in-law of Congress leader Sonia Gandhi’s former political secretary, late Ahmed Patel. The ED stated today four separate provisional attachment orders under section 5 of PMLA have been issued in this regard.
Enforcement Directorate initiated investigation under PMLA on the basis of FIR registered by CBI, Delhi for cheating several public sector banks. Investigation by ED revealed that Sandesaras diverted proceeds of crime of Rs 3 Crore, Rs 1.4 Crore, Rs. 12.54 Crore and Rs 3.51 Crore to Sanjay Khan, Dino Morea, Aqeel Bachooali and Irfan Ahmed Siddiqui respectively.
Earlier, ED had attached movable/immovable properties to the tune of Rs 14,513 Crore vide 08 Provisional attachment orders in relation to this case. With this attachment, the total attachment in this case reached to Rs 14,521.80 Crore. Total Proceeds of Crime in this case is more than Rs 16000 Crore.
Till now, one prosecution complaint along with 4 supplementary complaints have been filed in this case and 4 arrests have been made by ED. Nitin Sandesara, Chetan Sandesara, Dipti Chetan Sandesara and Hitesh Patel have been declared fugitives by the Special Court. Further investigation is in process, ED said.
– global bihari bureau
