ED seizes assets worth Rs 1,250 crore from Rose Valley chit fund company

While two hotels are in Kolkata -One hotel at AJC Bose road and another hotel in VIP Road- the others are spread over Jharkhand, Assam, Jaipur, Port Blair, Goa, among others. Twelve Rolls Royce cars worth several crores were also attached. Officials had issued a provisional attachment order for seizing property. Prior to this, the ED had issued four orders for attaching property worth Rs 500 crore.

In March, the ED had filed a chargesheet in this case wherein thousands of people were allegedly cheated in West Bengal and Odisha.

The agency had registered a criminal FIR against the firm, its Chairman Gautam Kundu and others in 2014 under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

Kundu was last year arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) from here and he is currently in judicial custody.

The agency had filed a prosecution complaint (equivalent of chargesheet) pertaining to cases in Odisha under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) before the Khurda sessions court cum special PMLA court here against the Chairman of the Rose Valley group of companies Gautam Kundu and others.