New Delhi: Enforcement Directorate (ED) has provisionally attached assets worth Rs. 3.94 Crore, under Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002 in connection to a case registered against Nalini Prusty, an Odisha Financial Service officer, Bijaya Ketan Sahoo, an Odisha Administrative Service officer (her husband) and others for “assets disproportionate to their known source of income”.
ED initiated money laundering investigation on the basis of FIR dated 30/08/2018 registered at Vigilance P.S. Cuttack under Section 13(2) read with Section 13(1)(b) of the Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Act, 2018 against Nalini Prusty & others for possession of disproportionate assets worth Rs.5.05 Crore.
“Investigation by ED revealed that Nalini Prusty and Bijaya Ketan Sahoo have invested their ill-gotten income, which is over and above their known source of income, in acquiring various landed properties and bank investments in their name and in the name of Debaki Prusty, mother of Nalini Prusty. Further investigation is in progress,” the ED said in a press note.
