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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued a provisional attachment order under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) to seize assets worth Rs 2.6 crore in a case pertaining to alleged embezzlement of funds of the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA).

Officials in the agency said the attachment order was issued under the PMLA against former treasurer of the JKCA Ahsan Ahmad Mirza and its finance committee member Mir Mansoor Gazanffer. Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and National Conference president Farooq Abdullah, who is presently in detention under the Public Safety Act (PSA), was earlier questioned by the ED in the case.

Giving details of the attachments, the ED in a statement said, “They consist of three FDRs (fixed deposit receipts) totalling Rs 1.29 crore with J&K Bank branch in Lajpat Nagar, New Delhi, in the name of Mirza Sons, a partnership firm of Mirza and his father, and 11 kanals of land with structure and commercial shopping complex at Pandrethan, Srinagar, worth Rs 1.31 crore.”