Overview
- The Enforcement Directorate issued a provisional attachment on October 4 for 34 immovable assets, including MUDA sites, valued at Rs 40.08 crore.
- The money-laundering investigation stems from a Mysuru Lokayukta FIR alleging large-scale irregularities in MUDA site allotments.
- ED findings allege former commissioner G. T. Dinesh Kumar routed undue gratification to buy properties in the names of relatives and associates and illegally allotted 31 sites.
- Dinesh Kumar was arrested under the PMLA on September 16 and remains in judicial custody.
- ED cites 2024 searches showing gross rule violations, a nexus between MUDA officials and real-estate businessmen, and cash payments, and reports cumulative attachments of roughly Rs 440 crore, including 252 previously attached MUDA sites.