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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday said it has provisionally attached immovable assets worth Rs 5.92 crore of former IAS officer Pradeep Sharma of the Gujarat cadre, under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). The assets include immoveable properties in the form of plots located in Bhuj in Gujarat’s Kutch.
The ED had initiated its money laundering investigation against Sharma and others, on the basis of an FIR registered by the CID for cheating and criminal breach of trust.
The agency said that its investigation revealed that Sharma, in connivance with other revenue officials, was allegedly involved in cheating and illegal allotment of valuable government land by leveraging his position as the District Collector of Bhuj. He allegedly disregarded various government resolutions and allotted the land illegally to one Sanjay Shah that caused an undue loss to the Gujarat government. Shah later developed the said land into residential plots and allegedly generated further Proceeds of Crime (POC), said the statement from the ED.
The ED conducted an investigation, which established the trail of POC generated by Shah, and the same was attached vide a Provisional Attachment Order on April 25, 2025. Further investigation is underway.
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