08-05-2025
ED attaches assets worth Rs 5,000 cr in US, UAE, Thailand in investors' 'fraud' case
The Enforcement Directorate has attached thirty assets. These assets are in the US, UAE, and Thailand. The attachment relates to a money laundering investigation. This investigation is linked to the 'Pan card club' fraud. The alleged fraud is worth over Rs 5,000 crore. The attached properties belong to subsidiaries of Panoramic Universal Ltd and Late Sudhir Moravekar.
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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday said it has attached 30 assets in the US, the UAE and Thailand as part of a money laundering investigation linked to an alleged ' Pan card club investors' fraud case worth over Rs 5,000 crore. These properties, attached provisionally under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), are in the name of overseas subsidiaries of Panoramic Universal Ltd (PUL), Mumbai and Late Sudhir Moravekar , an accused in the case, the federal probe agency said in a statement."All these assets have been acquired by making payments of Rs 54.32 crore between 2002-2015," it of these attached properties are located in Thailand, six in the UAE and two in the US, the agency probe pertains to the 'Pancard Clubs investment' fraud case, a probe based on an FIR by the Maharashtra Police (Economic Offences Wing).The ED said between 1997-2017, Pan Card Limited (PCL) "unauthorisedly" collected investments from about 51 lakh investors across India and "failed" to return more than Rs 5,000 crore to many of these EOW filed a charge-sheet against PCL, PUL and 44 other related companies, six directors and five marketing representatives of PCL under various sections of the IPC and the Maharashtra Protection of Interest of Depositors (In Financial Establishments) ED said the probe found that "proceeds of crime" of about Rs 99 crore were "diverted" from PCL to PUL apart from the personal accounts of family members of was found that in 2002, a hotel was bought in New Zealand through overseas direct investments (ODI) by PUL, it the asset was sold off and the wholly-owned subsidiary of PUL in New Zealand was closed "without" due reporting to the investments were also made in the USA, the UAE, Thailand and Singapore and remittances worth about Rs 100 crore were sent during 2002-2014, it were acquired in the name of these overseas subsidiary entities and both the sons of Moravekar were planning to sell off some of these properties located in the US and the UAE, it said.
