The Enforcement Directorate on Saturday said, investigators have made fresh seizures of antique jewellery, costly watches and paintings of Amrita Sher-Gil and M F Hussain worth Rs 26.40 crore from the Mumbai apartment of diamantaire Nirav Modi.
With this, the total attachment and seizures have risen to Rs 7,664 crore. The searches were conducted by ED official along with CBI investigators at Modi's sea-facing apartment Samudra Mahal in Mumbai on March 22.
Modi, his wife Ami, brother Nishal and uncle Mehul Choksi had left India in the first week of January, days before the CBI registered a case against them. Modi and Choksi, another prominent jeweller, were issued summons by both CBI and the ED but both have refused to return to India.
So far, the ED has conducted a total of 251 country-wide searches in this case after it began the criminal probe against the accused in February.