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ED attaches delhi based hotel Holiday Inn in Deepak Talwar money laundering case

<span style="color: #222222;">The Enforcement Directorate, ED, has provisionally attached a hotel Holiday Inn, valued at 120 crore, located in the national capital, in connection with a money laundering case against alleged aviation lobbyist Deepak Talwar. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">He was deported from Dubai in January this year and arrested by the agency. Talwar is presently in judicial custody. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The ED had initiated investigation against Talwar  in 2017 on the basis of an FIR registered by CBI against officials of Ministry of Civil Aviation, Air India and unknown private persons.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The ED, in a statement, said it was found that  Talwar illegally engaged in liaisoning and lobbying with politicians, ministers, other public servants for airlines such as Emirates, Air Arabia and Qatar Airways for securing undue benefits for them. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">He illegally managed to secure favourable traffic rights for these airlines during 2008-09 at the cost of National carrier, Air India. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">It has been revealed that the accused created a web of entities owned by him and his family members in India and international offshore havens to launder proceeds of crime of  272 crore rupees received from foreign airlines.</span><br />''  

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