New Delhi:
The Enforcement Directorate said on Tuesday that it seized 45 old cars, including some vintage, besides Rs 23 lakh cash and some foreign exchange is associated with alleged illegal sales of government land in a money laundering case during the search in Hyderabad.
The federal investigative agency said in a statement that the Money Laundering Act (PMLA) prevention was discovered at five places in Hyderabad on Monday.
The ED case stems from an FIR registered by Telangana police against private individuals and government officials, which includes the replay of documents in relation to the “illegal” sale of government land and manipulation in the revenue records.
Describing the case, the agency said that the government land or ‘Bhun’ land in Nagaram village under Maheshwaram Mandal (Ranga Reddy district) was “wrongly claimed” which was said by a woman named Khaderunisa as her ancestral property.
The revenue records were “fraud” and the land was sold to various institutions in association with several middlemen. These middlemen, together with government officials, “forge” documents and change the revenue records of the land, resulting in a de-founded sale to the said land from the prohibited list and some private parties were de-notified to its latter, the ED alleged.
Residences and farmhouses including Khadherunisa, Mohammad Munwar Khan, Mohammad Latef Sharfa, Mohammad Akhtar Sharifa and Mohammad Sukur, “documents related to the purchase of Rs 23 lakh and 12,000 UAE Dirhas were discovered to documents related to fake sales and government land procurement.
Forty -five used cars, including several vintage makers, were also seized from Mohammad Munwar Khan’s farmhouse complex.
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