New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has attached movable assets valued at Rs. 31.76 crore belonging to Income Tax Officer Khurshed Khan and his wife after an investigation found that the couple amassed wealth far beyond their known sources of income.
The attachment, ordered on November 29 through Provisional Attachment Order No. 07/2025, follows an FIR filed by the CBI’s Anti-Corruption Branch in Guwahati and a subsequent chargesheet in December 2021 accusing Khan of possessing disproportionate assets during his tenure as a public servant.
According to the ED, its probe uncovered deposits spread across multiple bank and post office accounts held by the duo between January 1, 2014, and December 31, 2019.
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Investigators said the assets were acquired through unexplained cash deposits, misuse of official position and layering of funds, creating a financial trail inconsistent with their declared income.
The agency alleged that Khan and his wife attempted to legitimise the money by fabricating personal diary entries and citing fictitious sources such as agricultural income, gifts from relatives, reimbursements for official expenses and income from garment stitching.
None of these claims, the ED said, stood up to scrutiny.
The attached assets will remain under provisional attachment as the money-laundering investigation continues.
