The Enforcement Directorate has attached assets worth 60 crore rupees belonging to former Uttar Pradesh Minister Babu Singh Kushwaha and others in connection with National Rural Health Mission, NRHM scam.

The CBI is also probing the multi-crore scam, in which Kushwaha is considered a key accused.

The ED's zonal office in Lucknow yesterday attached a number of flats and land properties in the name of Kushwaha, a former BSP leader and Family Welfare Minister in the erstwhile Mayawati cabinet, and his associate and co-accused in the case RP Jaiswal.

The properties, which have been seized under the criminal provisions of the money laundering law, are located in Lucknow, Banda, Noida and Delhi. The ED will soon issue prohibitory orders on these assets.

The accused will have the option to approach the Adjudicating Authority of Prevention of Money laundering Act, PMLA against the action by the ED within 180 days.

The ED had registered a criminal case under the PMLA in 2012 and subsequently found these assets to be proceeds of the crime of illegal laundering of government funds sanctioned under the NRHM scheme.