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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached a farmhouse with a market value of Rs.27 crore in connection with its money laundering probe against Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh and others.
The agency has issued a provisional order attaching the farmhouse located in south Delhi's Mehrauli area under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
It said the book value of the asset is Rs.6.61 crore but its market value is “worth Rs.27 crore and is in the name of “Maple Destinations & Dreambuild”.
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The latest ED action comes close on the heels of the CBI filing a charge sheet against Singh and his wife and others for allegedlyamassing assets worth around Rs.10 crore disproportionate to their known sources of income.
The ED had filed a criminal case under PMLA against the CM and others in 2015 based on a CBI FIR.
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