Azhikode
Properties of former MLA's wife attached
The Hindu news report 13 04 2022
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) provisionally attached as- sets worth 25 lakh of Asha Shaji, wife of Indian Union
Muslim League (IUML) leader and former legislator K.M. Shaji, on Tuesday.
The attached assets included a residential property at Vengeri village at Kakkodi on
the outskirts of Kozhikode city. The action was taken under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, a press release said
here.
The case was that Mr. Shaji had accepted a bribe of 25 lakh from a teacher on behalf of the school management in 2016.
The teacher was later regularised in a school at Azhikode.
The ED had initiated a money laundering investigation on the basis of an FIR regis-
tered by the Kannur Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau on April 18, 2020.
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