New Delhi, Dec 3 (PTI) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached assets worth Rs 76 lakh of a man accused of leaking a question paper of the Andhra Pradesh PG medical entrance test of 2014.

The federal agency, in a statement, said a provisional order for attachment of properties like seven housing sites, three agricultural plots and a house located in Mysuru, Karnataka, along with fixed deposits worth Rs 36.28 lakh of Ameer Ahmed Kogaluru and others, has been issued under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

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According to the statement, these properties were "illegally" acquired from the proceeds of crime generated in the crime of leakage of the AP PGMET-2014 question paper.

Kogaluru and others conspired to leak the question paper of the Andhra Pradesh post graduate medical entrance test-2014 conducted by Dr NTR University of Health Sciences, Vijayawada, and made money by making the leaked question paper available to some PG seat aspirants, the ED claimed.

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