New Delhi: Assets worth over Rs 78 crore of former ICICI Bank Chairman Chanda Kochhar, including her Rs 3.5 crore flat in Mumbai, and her family have been attached by the ED in connection with a money laundering probe against them, the agency said on Friday.
A provisional order under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) has been issued for attachment of properties like flat, land, and plant and machinery of a windfarm project based in Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra.
These assets, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) said in a statement, are "in possession" of Kochhar, her husband Deepak Kochhar and the companies owned and controlled by him.
While the book value of these assets is Rs 78.15 crore, officials said their market value is about Rs 600 crore.
The ED had slapped money laundering charges against the Kochhars and their business entities in January last year for "illegal sanctioning of loans amounting to Rs 1,875 crore to the Videocon Group of companies."
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This was after the ED studied a CBI FIR against the Kochhar's and carried out raids.