New Delhi, March 16 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday said it has attached movable and immovable properties worth Rs 23.35 crore under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, in connection with a land acquisition compensation fraud relating to the Raipur-Visakhapatnam National Highway project under the Bharatmala Pariyojana.

ED's Raipur zonal office attached these assets in continuation of its probe it initiated in the case registered based on the First Information Report (FIR) registered by Chhattisgarh Economic Offences Wing and Anti-Corruption Bureau under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.

Subsequently, the agency said, a charge sheet was f...