According to the Enforcement Directorate, a property owned by Archana Nag, the main suspect in an alleged sextortion case in Odisha, has had its value attached under the anti-money laundering statute.
The two Odisha Police FIRs of 2022 against Nag, her husband Jagabandhu Chand, his alleged assistant Khageshwar Patra, and Nag associate Sharadhanjali Behera are the basis for the money laundering probe.
The high-profile sextortion racket operating in and around the city of Bhubaneswar has been the subject of an ongoing money laundering probe, according to the agency. “A magnificent residence of the principal accused Archana Nag worth Rs 3.64 crore has been attached,” the agency stated in a statement.
The ED reported that according to the state police complaint, “the lady blackmailer Archana Nag, her husband (Chand), with the assistance of Shradhanjali Behera and Khageswar Patra generated properties worth crores of rupees through extortion by way of honey trapping high-profile and wealthy people and secretly making their videos, threatening and blackmailing them for filing false police cases against them and making viral of their videos in social media.” In this case, the agency had previously confiscated some high-end vehicles valued Rs 56.5 lakh.
Prasanta Patnaik 
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