ED attaches properties worth Rs 36 crore of ex-IAS officer Sanjay Gupta

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday said that it has attached assets worth Rs 36.12 crore of former IAS officer Sanjay Gupta and his wife, accumulated in the name of Neesa Group of Companies in connection with its probe into misappropriation of public funds from Metro Link Express for Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad Company Ltd, (MEGA) under the charges of money laundering.

The ED initiated the probe against the former IAS on the basis of the FIR and charge sheets filed by Gandhinagar’s CID Crime under several sections of the Indian Penal Code and Prevention of Corruption Act.

The ED said that the attached properties include flats at Dhananjay Towers, Satellite, Ahmedabad Casela Towers, Ahmedabad, one flat at Agarwal Apartment in Ahmedabad, Cambay Hotel at Thaltej, and plots and factories at Visalpur, Changodar, and Daskroi in Ahmedabad.

According to the central probe agency, Gupta along with his wife formed Neesa Group of Companies namely Neesa Leisure Ltd., Neesa Technologies, Neesa Agritech and Foods Ltd.

During the probe, it was found that Gupta, a 1985 batch IAS officer of the Gujarat cadre, who quit his job in 2002, started his own hospitality business in the name of Neesa Group of companies. The ED said that he became Chairman of MEGA in April 2011 and continued till August 2013.

“Investigations under PMLA revealed that Gupta during his tenure as Chairman arbitrarily appointed his close associates in various officials’ positions in MEGA, who were previously working with him in Neesa Group,” the agency said in a statement. (IANS)

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