<h1>ED provisionally attaches Rs 185.84 crore in assets under PMLA in alleged housing finance company bank loan fraud</h1> The Enforcement Directorate provisionally attached movable and immovable assets valued at about Rs 185.84 crore under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act in an alleged bank loan fraud involving a housing finance company and its promoters, bringing total attachments in the matter to Rs 256.23 crore. The attached assets include 154 flats and receivables relating to 20 flats in Mumbai, by order of the agency's Mumbai zonal office. The probe arises from a criminal FIR alleging cheating of a consortium of 17 banks through siphoning and misappropriation of loan funds, falsified books, diversion via proxy firms, and rigged share trades; a chargesheet was filed in a special PMLA court.