India, April 16 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday said it has attached fresh assets worth Rs 159 crore in a money laundering investigation linked to alleged illegal coal mining and pilferage in poll-bound West Bengal, a case in which it also raided the political consultancy firm I-PAC.

The attached assets include investments in movable financial instruments such as corporate bonds and alternative investment funds held in the names of entities like Shyam Sel and Power Ltd and Shyam Ferro Alloys Ltd, part of the Shyam Group, managed and controlled by Sanjay Agarwal and Brij Bhushan Agarwal, the agency said in a statement.

The ED case stems from a November 2020 FIR filed by the CBI, which alleged a multi-crore rupee coal pil...