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Conman’s properties worth over Rs 2 crore attached

Jadeja,currently lodged in Sabarmati Central Jail,cheated hundreds of people in Gujarat and neighbouring states of Rajasthan,Maharashtra,New Delhi,Punjab and Karnataka among others.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Ahmedabad has attached movable properties worth more than Rs 2 crore belonging to “conman” Ashok Jadeja who was the main accused of a multi-crore scandal that was reported in 2009.

Jadeja,currently lodged in Sabarmati Central Jail,cheated hundreds of people in Gujarat and neighbouring states of Rajasthan,Maharashtra,New Delhi,Punjab and Karnataka among others.

ED officials said in March they completed the process in which they attached cash and jewellery deposited in different banks amounting to the tune of Rs 2.45 crore. The ED officials seized gold and silver ornaments worth Rs 22.32 lakh,Rs 16.74 lakh from an account of Canara bank,Rs 1.65 lakh from a saving account of SBI and Rs 6.55 lakh deposited in Ahmedabad district Cooperative Bank.The CID had arrested 27 persons in this connection.

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