Digital Goa, Nov 10- Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has provisionally attached 8 immovable properties worth Rs. 11.82 Crore in possession of Estevan D’Souza, Moses Fernandes and Samir Korgaonkar from Goa in connection with a Money laundering investigation conducted under PMLA, 2002 related to illegal grabbing of land in Goa. ED initiated investigation on the basis of the FIRs registered by Porvorim police, and Economic Offence Cell (EOC), Goa under various sections of IPC, 1860, regarding illegally grabbing of land/properties by impersonating the original owner of the property and thereby cheating the buyers. ED investigation revealed that the accused persons for the purpose of illegally grabbing the land, identified properties where the actual owner of the property had died without any legal heir or the legal heir was living outside India. After identifying the properties which fits the description, accused persons committed offences punishable under of section 419, 420 and 471 of IPC by means of forgery and impersonating the original owner of the property and subsequently by executing sale deed or irreversible power of attorney in their own name, they took possession of these properties illegally.
