Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Ranchi Zonal Office has provisionally attached 10 immovable properties valued over 15.41 crore rupees in Kolkata and Howrah under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. ED in a statement, said that the attached assets belong to Amit Gupta, one of the masterminds of a large-scale GST fraud syndicate, and his associates.

ED initiated the investigation on the basis of multiple complaints filed by the Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI), Jamshedpur, against a criminal syndicate.ED investigation revealed that the accused masterminds orchestrated a sophisticated fraud by creating and operating a network of 135 shell companies across Jharkhand, West Bengal and Delhi.