Enforcement Directorate attaches gangster Anupam Dubey’s Rs 14 crore assets

New Delhi, February 17

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has provisionally attached 33 immovable properties worth Rs 13.85 crore and Rs 85.75 lakh in bank accounts, totalling to Rs 14.70 crore, belonging to notorious gangster Anupam Dubey and his family members under various provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002.

The properties are situated in Farrukhabad, Uttar Pradesh, and are in the form of agricultural land and residential plots.

These properties are registered in the name of Dubey, Anurag Dubey, his family members and their NGO Mahesh Chadra Dubey Apoorva Foundation through manager Anupam Dubey.

The ED had initiated investigation on the basis of multiple FIRs registered by the UP Police in Farrukhabad and Unnao under various Sections of the IPC and the UP Gangster and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act, 1986, against Anupam Dubey, his brothers Anurag Dubey and Amit Dubey.

In one of the FIRs, Anupam Dubey has been convicted by a Kanpur district court for the murder of an inspector in 1996.

The ED investigations also revealed that Anupam Dubey and his brother Anurag Dubey along with their associates have generated proceeds of crime by committing offences like criminal intimidation, extortion, cheating, kidnapping, forceful encroachment of land etc.

They had purchased these properties by utilising the proceeds of crime between 2012 and 2021 at undervalued price and the current market value of the properties is more than Rs 20 crore. Dubey is currently lodged in Mathura jail has 67 criminal cases against him.