Enforcement Directorate seizes ₹1.21 crore cash, jewellery worth ₹5.51 crore after raids in investment fraud case
The HinduThe Enforcement Directorate on March 6 said it has seized ₹1.21 crore cash and gold and diamond jewellery worth more than ₹5 crore after it raided some Nagpur-based persons in a money-laundering case linked to alleged investment fraud that cheated numerous investors. The money-laundering case stems from a Nagpur Police FIR field against Pankaj Nandlal Mehadia, Lokesh Santosh Jain, Kartik Santosh Jain, Balmukund Lalchand Keyal, Premlata Nandlal Mehadia in a case of "fraud causing loss to investors in crores of Rupees." "Throughout the period of 2005 to 2016, with the malafide intention of cheating and siphoning off the investors' money, the accused persons ran the ponzi scheme giving assured returns to win over the investors and thus luring the investors to invest in larger amounts in the associated firms/companies and ultimately did not return the money," the federal probe agency alleged. “The search operation led to the recovery of gold and diamond jewellery worth ₹5.51 crore, about ₹1.21 crore cash, digital devices and some documents,” the agency said.