ED attaches ₹23.35 crore assets in Raipur-Visakhapatnam highway compensation scam

• ED provisionally attached movable and immovable assets worth ₹23.35 crore under PMLA in the Raipur-Visakhapatnam National Highway compensation scam.
• The investigation was initiated based on an FIR registered by the Chhattisgarh EOW/ACB against Harmeet Singh Khanuja and other accused.
• Land brokers, private individuals, and government officials conspired to obtain higher and ineligible compensation for acquired land.
• Fraudulent land division and manipulation of revenue records artificially inflated compensation amounts after a January 2020 notification.
• Harmeet Singh Khanuja and associates siphoned off funds from landowners' accounts using pre-signed blank cheques, transferring money to their own entities.