ED attaches ₹159.51-crore assets in West Bengal illegal coal mining case

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has provisionally attached assets worth ₹159.51 crore in connection with a probe into illegal coal mining and pilferage by a syndicate allegedly led by Anup Majhi, also known as "Lala". The agency alleges that the syndicate was involved in multiple layers of complex financial transactions to conceal illicit funds. The attached assets include investments in corporate bonds and alternative investment funds held in the names of companies linked to the Shyam Group, managed by Sanjay Agarwal and Brij Bhushan Agarwal. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has also registered a case in connection with the illegal mining, which is being investigated alongside the ED's probe.