The Enforcement Directorate (ED) submitted a third chargesheet at a Special Court in Dehradun, implicating Amarpreet Kaur Chawla, the wife of a member of an international drug trafficking organization, in a case involving illegal assets. The charges were filed on December 24, with the ED revealing that properties purchased by the drug group using illicit funds were registered under Amarpreet Kaur’s name.
Following their investigation, the ED found that assets worth Rs 9.68 crore were provisionally attached on July 18, 2024, under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002. The probe was initiated based on a request for Mutual Legal Assistance from US authorities, focusing on offenses under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.
The drug trafficking group, known as the Singh DTO (Drug Trafficking Organisation), operated internationally, utilizing dark web vendor sites, online advertisements, and a network of distributors to sell drugs in the US, UK, and Europe. The organization then laundered its proceeds through cryptocurrency transactions, with the two brothers using aliases on various dark web markets.
