<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">Enforcement  Directorate has provisionally attached movable and immovable properties worth over 152 Crore rupees belonging to Saumya Chaurasia, Deputy Secretary to Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, IAS officer Sameer Vishnoi and others in the alleged coal levy scam. </span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br />''</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">The properties include cash, jewelry, flats, coal Washeries and plots of land located in Chhattisgarh. The agency has conducted searches at more than 75 locations including the Mining Departments at District Collector Offices of Korba and Raighad in Chhattisgarh and claimed to have collected incriminating evidence. ED has recorded statements from around one hundred individuals.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">ED investigation revealed that as part of a grand conspiracy, policies were changed. During the investigation, it was revealed that Suryakant Tiwari was the main henchman at the ground level. He deployed his employees in various regions to extort money from Coal Transporters and industrialists. ED investigation showed that an amount of at least 540 Crore rupees has been extorted in the last two years. Earlier, in this case, ED had arrested Suryakant Tiwari and Saumya Chaurasia.</span></p>