- ED freezes Rs 42 lakh cash and assets worth crores.
ED Raid: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday (April 17, 2026) took major action in a case related to money laundering in Nashik district of Maharashtra. The ED team has raided Oaks Property Office, the business complex of alleged religious leader Baba Ashok Kharat located in Canada Corner area of Nashik. This raid is still going on.
Before ED, SIT had also taken action in the case.
Earlier last month, on March 26, 2026, a search operation was conducted by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) in this office complex of Oaks Property. During the operation, the SIT had seized many important documents. After this, this office premises was sealed by the SIT.
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42 lakh cash seized in ED raid, property worth crores frozen
Earlier, while taking action in this case, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had seized Rs 42 lakh in cash, while properties worth about Rs 2.4 crore were frozen. At the same time, the latest action is being taken in coordination with Nashik SIT, which helped the agency to re-investigate the sealed premises.
SIT action, which documents were recovered?
During the SIT action, officials had allegedly seized two sacks filled with documents related to property dealings, land transactions and financial records. These include information related to suspected benami properties and entries of more than 52 lands (7/12 entries). Along with all its belongings, many check books, receipts and financial registers were also recovered from the spot.
Apart from this, the investigating agencies have also seized computers, hard disks and several pen drives installed in Oaks Property Office. Which is being investigated in depth. Due to this, the ED and SIT teams are investigating the case in full coordination with each other. There is a possibility that there may be many more big revelations in this matter.
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