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Key Highlights
- ED had examined Anitha R Radhakrishnan in Madurai last September.
- Market value of attached assets is approximately Rs 6.5 crores which includes 18 immovable properties acquired by Anitha in name of family members worth Rs 1 crores during 2001-06.
- ED has shifted two cases registered against Tamil Nadu ministers including one against Anitha R Radhakrishnan from Madurai to Chennai unit in October 2001 due to “administrative reasons”.
New Delhi: Enforcement Directorate has provisionally attached properties of Tamil Nadu’s minister for fisheries-fishermen and animal husbandry Anitha R Radhakrishnan and his family to the tune of Rs 6.5 crore.
Radhakrishnan is the former housing and urban development minister of the minister. In September Anitha R Radhakrishnan was questioned by the ED in Madurai, last September, in a money laundering case related to a disproportionate case.
The ED had registered a case under PMLA on FIR registered by Tamil Nadu’s Directorate of Vigilance and Anti Corruption against Anitha R Radhakrishnan in 2006. The chargesheet under sections of Prevention of Corruption Act was filed in 2019. The case is pending trial in a court in Thoothukudi. It was alleged that he acquired disproportionate assets to the tune of Rs 2 crores.
Under PMLA provisions ED has powers to attach if the assets have been acquired from proceeds of crime. “ED has provisionally attached 18 immovable properties (160 acres of land, residential properties) worth Rs 1 crore acquired by Anitha R Radhakrishnan in the name of family members during the checking period 14th May 2001 to 31st March 2006,” said ED in a press statement.
The guideline value of attached asset is approximately Rs 6.5 crore.