The Enforcement Directorate on Friday said it has attached a factory in Thailand worth over Rs 13 crore of a Gitanjali group company, owned by absconding diamond jeweller Mehul Choksi, in connection with the alleged USD 2 billion PNB fraud case.

“During probe, this overseas property has been identified and after gathering concrete evidence of ownership it has been attached,” the ED said in a statement.

Officials said ED investigators will soon get issued Letters Rogatories for legal formalisation of the attachment of the foreign based asset.

The agency said it has issued a provisional order for attachment, under the PMLA, of the factory premise owned by Abbeycrest Limited which is a “group company” of the Gitanjali group of companies.

“Investigations under PMLA revealed that Abbeycrest Limited is the beneficiary of the LoUs issued fraudulently and unauthorisedly from the PNB to the tune of Rs 92.3 crore.

Choksi, his nephew and diamond jeweller Nirav Modi, and others are being probed under various criminal laws after the fraud came to light, following a complaint from the Punjab National Bank that they allegedly cheated the nationalised bank to the tune of over Rs 13,000 crore, with the purported involvement of some of its employees.