India, March 24 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached assets worth Rs.34.51 crore in a money-laundering probe into the alleged siphoning of Rs.77 crore from the elite United Services Club in Colaba.

The agency's investigation is based on a First Information Report (FIR) registered by the Mumbai police in February 2025. The attached assets belong to Bernadette Varma, the club's former deputy secretary (finance), her husband Bharatkumar Varma, and others. These include flats, shops and fixed deposits in Mumbai valued at around Rs.34.51 crore.

The ED's probe has revealed that Bernadette allegedly connived with her husband to open dummy bank accounts in names closely resembling those of the club's regular vendors. She is accused ...