PNB fraud: ED attaches assets worth Rs 218 crore

NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday seized assets worth over Rs 218 crore, including diamonds and flats abroad, in the nearly Rs 13,000-crore loan fraud case probe, the agency said. It said three provisional orders under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act were issued by the central investigative agency’s zonal office in Mumbai for attachment of the properties. The beneficiaries of these assets put under attachment, it said, are absconding Mehul Choksi, Mihir Bhansali, a close aide and US-based executive of Nirav Modi, and a company named A P Gems and Jewellery Park linked to Choksi. PTI