These assets were seized in connection with the Rs 14,000 crore bank loan fraud case involving Gujarat-based pharmaceutical firm Sterling Biotech.
The Enforcement Directorate on Friday said that it has attached assets worth Rs 8.79 crore of actors Dino Morea and Sanjay Khan, Congress leader Ahmed Patel’s son-in-law Irfan Ahmed Siddiqui and DJ Aqeel Abdulkhalil Bachooali in connection with a money laundering case. The case is connected to the Rs 14,500 crore bank fraud allegedly done by Gujarat-based pharmaceutical firm Sterling Biotech and its main directors and promoters Nitin Jayantilal Sandesara, Deepti Sandesara and Chetankumar Jayantilal Sandesara. The Enforcement Directorate said that it started an investigation under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act,2002, on the basis of FIRs filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation. Its investigation revealed that the Sandesara brothers and their relatives had diverted money obtained through criminal activity, or proceeds of crime, to Morea and others, the Enforcement Directorate said. Bachooali allegedly received Rs 12.54 crore from the Sandesaras, Siddiqui got 3.51 crore, Khan Rs 3 crore and Morea 1.
