The development comes a day after Himachal Pradesh assembly election dates was announced.
The Enforcement Directorate attached movable and immovable assets worth Rs 5.6 crore of Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister and Congress leader Virbhadra Singh under Prevention of Money Laundering Act in the disproportionate assets case registered against him. The development comes a day after Himachal Pradesh assembly election dates was announced. The poll will be held in a single phase on November 9, the Election Commission had said.
The ED has attached Rs 4.2 crore from portion of farmhouse at Dera Mandi in Delhi in name of Tarini International and fixed assets of Tarini Infra Damanganga project at Vapi in Gujarat, shares worth Rs 64 lakh in name of his son Vikramaditya Singh and daughter Aprajita Singh and Rs 80 lakh in Fixed Deposit and bank accounts of wife Pratibha Singh and daughter Aprajita.
The ED investigation under PMLA followed an FIR registered by the CBI under various sections of Prevention of Corruption Act and Indian Penal Code against Virbhadra Singh, his wife Pratibha, Anand Chauhan, Chunni Lal Chauhan and other unknown persons.
The farm house of Maple Destinations and Dreambuild Pvt. Ltd. at Dera Mandi, New Delhi valued at 27.29 crore of market value was second attachment in the case. The farm was purchased by funding done through shell companies. Investigation into the source of said purchase of property revealed that the funds for the same had been provided through Vakamulla Chandrashekar, Promoter of Tarini Group of Companies engaged in Hydro power projects . Incidentally Vakamulla Chandrashekar's company was awarded Saikothi plant in Chamba in Himachal Pradesh.
During further investigations into trail of funds passing through Chandershekhar it is revealed that an amount of Rs 5.9 crore was given by Chandrashekar to Singh and his family members through his three personal bank accounts. When the source of funds was enquired into, it came to light that the said amount was received through web of firms indulging in accommodation entry operation.
The Directorate on investigating about these firms came to conclusion that these firms were opened in name of employees with meagre salary primarily for providing accommodation entries and the addresses of the firms were fake.
The majority of entries were given by on Ram Prakash Bhatia who issued fake agricultural bills and were facilitated by Vineet Mishra former HDFC Branch Manager at Mansrover Garden in Delhi.
"Rs 90 lakh out of this 5.9 crore was utilised for purchase of farmhouse and another Rs 80 lakh was invested in property at Greater Kailash which stands attached vide earlier orders," the ED stated.
In this Rs 3.9 crore of this amount was stated to be given as loan for repair of palace of Singh. However it was utilized for personal use and for making Fixed Deposits in various banks. It was returned only after Income Tax investigation started and the facts started appearing in media. The majority of this amount returned to Vakamulla Chandrashekar was mainly infused in his two companies – Tarini International Ltd. and Tarini Infrastructure.
It also came to light that an amount of Rs 1.19 crore in cash was handed over by Chandrashekar to Vineet Mishra. The said amount was utilized for making investment of Rs 34 lakh, Rs 30 lakh and Rs 34 lakh in shares of Tarini Infrastructure Ltd in the name of Pratibha Singh, Vikramaditya and Aprajita Singh.
"Further investigation is in progress," the agency said.
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