New Delhi, Feb 26 (UNI) Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday said it that has attached movable properties worth Rs 2.03Crore under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA) in a case of extortion by the Left-Wing Extremism (LWE) in Jharkhand where the extremists used to collect funds through extortion of the contractors, coal traders, coal transporters in Magadh Amrapali Coal Block area of Jharkhand.
The attached assets include movable properties in form of vehicles held in the name of Bindeshwar Ganjhu alias Bindu Ganjhu and his firm Maa Gange Coal Trading Private Limited.
The central probe agency initiated investigations under PMLA on the basis of FIR registered by the Jharkhand Police and charge sheet has also been filed by the Jharkhand Police against Binod Kumar Ganjhu and others.
The case has further been taken over by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), Ranchi wherein it has filed two charge sheets against Binod Kumar Ganjhu and others.

Investigation conducted under PMLA has revealed that Bindeshwar Ganjhu used to collect levy from transporters and delivery order holders in Magadh Amrapali Coal block area in connivance with other extremists of a proscribed outfit Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC) in Chatra district of Jharkhand.
“He being a member of the outlawed organisation TPC, was closely associated with top leaders thereof and acquired proceeds of crime in the name of himself as well as his firm which were projected and claimed as untainted properties. Immovable and movable assets worth Rs 2.89 crore belonging to the extremists of TPC Binod Kumar Ganjhu, Pradeep Ram and their two firms were already attached earlier in this case which was duly confirmed by the PMLA Adjudicating Authority”, the officials said in the ED, adding that total attachment in the case is now Rs 4.92 crore.
Further investigation in the matter is under progress, the probe agency added.
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