The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has provisionally hooked up belongings value Rs 25 lakh of Asha Shaji, the spouse of IUML chief and former legislator KM Shaji, underneath the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002.
The hooked up belongings embrace a residential property in Kozhikode, mentioned ED.
ED had initiated investigation on the premise of an FIR registered by the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau in opposition to KM Shaji, who had then been a legislator representing Azhikode in Kannur district, in April, 2020.
The FIR had claimed that Shaji had taken a bribe of Rs 25 lakh from a instructor on behalf of the administration of a government-aided faculty in his constituency in 2016. Later, the instructor was given a everlasting appointment on the identical faculty.
An official communication mentioned an ED probe had revealed that Shaji allegedly used a considerable portion of the cash for developing the residential property within the identify of his spouse.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
