The Enforcement Directorate (ED) said on Tuesday (July 15, 2025) that it has attached six immovable assets worth Rs 4.18 crore to be involved in a serious case of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Atul Rai and a close associate of Bahubali (Death) Mukhtar Ansari, including six immovable assets worth Rs 4.18 crore, including an apartment in Delhi.
This action has been taken under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). This action to attach the assets is part of an investigation related to Mukhtar Ansari’s company Vikas Construction.
The Central Agency said in a statement that under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, a temporary order has been issued to attach these properties, including three plots in Varanasi and two agricultural land in Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh.
It said that these properties are owned by spectrum Infrastructure Private Limited, which is owned and controlled by Atul Rai and Ansari’s alleged colleague Jitendra Sapra. This case of money laundering is related to an FIR lodged by Uttar Pradesh Police in Mau district (South Tola police station).
The police complaint states that Ghazipur -based company Vikas Construction ‘encroached’ on government land in Raini village of Mau and built a ‘illegally’ warehouse on it. According to the complaint, another warehouse was built in Ghazipur and it was leased to the Food Corporation of India (FCI).
The ED said that this earned the income of crime, as the accused institutions received fare from FCI. The investigating agency said that the total fare received from FCI was Rs 15.31 crore.
According to the statement, NABARD earned an additional income of Rs 2.25 crore as ‘subsidy’ from NABARD for the construction of warehouse, while Rs 3.10 crore was ‘illegally grabbed’ from former partners of Vikas Construction and Ansari’s brother -in -law Atif Raza received Rs 7.05 crore as handling and transport fee from FCI.
The ED said that these transactions are criminal income of Rs 27.72 crore in total. According to the agency, this money was used to buy immovable properties, which have now been attached. The ED said that it has attached some properties in this case earlier and hence, now the total attachment value is Rs 6.40 crore.
Mukhtar Ansari died in March 2024 in a hospital in Banda due to cardiac arrest. He was a five -time MLA from Mau Sadar seat and was in jail in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab since 2005. More than 60 criminal cases were pending against him.