Overview

• The Enforcement Directorate issued provisional attachment orders for one Delhi apartment, three residential plots in Varanasi and two agricultural lands in Ghazipur linked to former MP Atul Rai.
• Spectrum Infraservices Pvt Ltd, controlled by Rai, and properties held by Mukhtar Ansari aide Jitender Sapra are among the assets seized under the PMLA.
• Investigators traced ₹27.72 crore of illicit proceeds from Vikas Construction’s illegal godown construction, FCI rent, subsidies and misappropriations.
• Approximately ₹8.49 crore of tainted funds were layered through Ansari-related companies before being routed into entities owned by Rai in a complex layering process.
• The ED’s ongoing money laundering probe under the PMLA is targeting the late Mukhtar Ansari’s organized crime financing network.