Enforcement Directorate has provisionally attached 28 immovable properties worth over ten crore rupees in the name of gangster Vikas Dubey and his associates located at Kanpur and Lucknow.
The action was taken under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002. The ED said that these properties were derived from proceeds of crime earned by
the criminal activities of Dubey.
The ED initiated the money laundering investigation on the basis of an FIR registered at a Police Station in Uttar Pradesh. The investigation was started with a view to identifying the persons involved in the offense of money laundering and properties acquired out of illegal gains.