THE Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday attached assets of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Eknath Khadse and others worth more than Rs 5 crores in a money laundering case.

As per the official statement by the law enforcement agency, it informed, “ED has attached properties of former BJP and now NCP leader Eknath Khadse, his wife Mandakini Khadse and son-in-law Girish Chaudhary in connection with the money laundering case registered against the three.” Chaudhary was arrested by ED and is in judicial custody at present while Khadse has been questioned twice by the agency in the Pune, Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) land money laundering case against the three.The total attachment made by ED is of around Rs 5.73 crores, this includes a bungalow in Lonavala, three land parcels in Jalgaon and three flats in the Jalgaon district of Maharashtra.

The properties are in name of the three accused -- Eknath Khadse, Mandakini Khadse and Girish Chaudhary.