Enforcement Directorate (ED) today attached Rs 60 lakh worth of assets belonging to former Jammu and Kashmir Chairman of Board of Professional Entrance Examination (BOPEE) Mushtaq Ahmad Peer in connection with an alleged question paper scam in the state.
The agency had earlier this year registered a money laundering case against Peer after going through the FIR of the Jammu and Kashmir Police registered in this case.
ED, according to sources, identified Peer's assets and cash in bank accounts in Delhi and Kashmir and issued attachment orders identifying them as "proceeds of crime" derived from alleged corruption money of the scam.
The action has been taken under the criminal provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
The JK Crime Branch had submitted a charge sheet, in the Common Entrance Test paper leak case, against Peer and 24 others before the Special Judge (Anti Corruption), Kashmir, M L Manhas, at his residence in Jammu.
The 31-page charge sheet, sources said, has been filed against Peer, the main accused in the scam along with his accomplices including Farooq Ahmad Yatoo, alleged broker Sajad Ahmed Bhat, Haroon and Farooq Ahmad Shah who allegedly purchased the papers from Peer and then sold them to students for a hefty fee.
The charge sheet has named 12 students and 9 parents, of whom Bhat, Haroon and Shah have already been arrested.
An attachment order under PMLA is aimed at depriving an accused from the benefits of the ill-gotten assets.
