BHOPAL: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued instructions to attach property worth Rs 2.77 crore of former IAS officer of MP cadre, K Suresh. The property includes Rs 29 lakh in his bank accounts.
The Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) had filed a first information report (FIR) against Suresh, when he was chairman of Chennai Port Trust, for possessing wealth disproportionate to his known sources of income. The ED had also initiated investigations against Suresh and others in a money laundering case.
The assessment of wealth owned by Suresh is said to be Rs 2.79 crore, which is much more than his known sources of income. According to ED, Suresh has invested money in Africa with the help of his friend, who is a real estate agent and a businessman dealing in gold and mining.
Suresh also bought properties in the name of his brother-in-law. The Madhya Pradesh government did not promote Suresh, in view of these cases. Union Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) had also served charge-sheet on Suresh on his retirement day. A special court of CBI, based at Chennai, has already sentenced Suresh to two years in jail.
