India: Assets worth Rs.6 crore of Lalu Yadav and his family were seized by a central probe agency on Monday in an alleged corruption case.
Lalu Yadav and Rabri Devi, both former Chief Ministers, and some of their children, including Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav, are being investigated in what is known as the Bihar land-for-jobs scam.
The assets were seized by the Enforcement Directorate, the central agency which investigates financial crimes.
”A total of 6 immovable properties situated at New Delhi, Ghaziabad and Patna being proceeds of crime, have been provisionally attached under Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002,” the probe agency said in a statement.
Yadav and his family members are accused of buying land dirt-cheap in exchange for jobs during his stint as Union Railway Minister from 2004 to 2009.
”The investigation by ED revealed that the family members of candidates gifted/sold land (at cheap rates/lesser than the circle rate) to family members of Lalu Yadav and associated companies in lieu of job which was given in a malafide manner with undue haste and in violation of extant law and procedure,” the agency added.
