ED attaches properties of Income Tax officer

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached the properties of Income Tax officer Abhishek Tripathi under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002.

Three immovable properties and bank balance worth Rs 79.7 lakh of Tripathi and his family members have been attached in a disproportionate assets case.

The immovable properties are located at Lakhimpur Kheri and Lucknow district in Uttar Pradesh. Investigation into money laundering was taken up on the basis of a charge sheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in Bengaluru in a case registered in 2016.

ED officials said investigation revealed that Tripathi, during December 2008 to April 2016, had misused his official position to enter into a number of suspicious transactions and acquired huge movable and immovable properties in his names and those of his family members, which are disproportionate to his known sources of income.