Goa property fraud: Many buyers from NCR
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PANAJI: A day after the
enforcement directorate
(ED) seized property documents worth Rs 600 crore from the offices and residence of 'key mastermind'
Rohan Harmalkar
, it seized his house. The directorate said that Harmalkar - who contested the 2022 assembly election as an independent - would identify properties that were unattended for many years, and that his clients were mostly from Delhi-NCR and Haryana.
Most of the properties Harmalkar identified either had no legal heir, or the owner was deceased or lived abroad without returning to Goa for decades.
Once Harmalkar had identified these properties, he along with other accused engaged in impersonation, creation of fake documents, and tampering with revenue records to sell those properties, the central agency said.
Harmalkar acted on behalf of some land purchasers so that people from outside Goa could acquire these properties below market price. In some cases, the accused cheated the customers. "Harmalkar had multiple customers outside the state, including from Delhi-NCR and Haryana, among other places," the agency said.
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On Friday, when the ED searched his office and residences in connection with an alleged
land scam
, it seized documents of immovable properties worth over Rs 600 crore. The operation also uncovered incriminating property documents worth over Rs 1,000 crore in prime tourist hotspots of North Goa.
These included forged title deeds, indicating manipulation of land records and fraudulent transfers of high-value land parcels spanning several lakhs of square meters in places like Anjuna, Arpora, and Assagao in Bardez taluka, the agency said.
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