kolkata the enforcement directorate ed on thursday attached rose valley group properties valued at rs 2300 crore across the country hotels and resorts attached by the central agency includes the groups properties at mandarmani lataguri and durgapur in bengal the adrija jewellery shop at baguiati has also been attachedprobing the rs 17000crore scam the ed has already attached properties worth rs 1900 crore belonging to different companies of the group run by gautam kundu according to sources while the collection of the group is pegged at rs 17000 crore kundu had been returning money to investors the sources said even factoring this in the total outstanding of rose valley was rs 8600 crore a further rs 3500 crore towards commission of agents and interest payments was paid ed sources indicated the actual liability of the group therefore would be around rs 5000 crore of it nearly rs 4200 crore worth of property including thursdays seizures has been attached a division bench of justices nishita mhatre and joymalya bagchi had earlier issued a nocoercion order against rose valley real estate construction ltd the current provisional attachment order under the prevention of money laundering act pmla 1994 was issued after this order was vacated said an ed official armed with the reprieve the agency on thursday attached the rose valley properties including hotels and resorts and more than 400 land parcels measuring around 200 acres in allthere was an order from the division bench of the calcutta high court about not taking any coercive action against the company we will see how the agency moved despite that we have not yet received any formal communication regarding that from the ed said kundus lawyer biplab goswamiaccording to ed sources the rose valley group had been trying to keep the properties under the investigating agencies radars by handing them over to different groups accordingly the hotels changed hands from sun city group to chocolate group after the ed registered an fir against the firm its chairman kundu and others in 2014 later next year ed arrested kunduagency sources said hotels that had been operational till date will not be closed even in case of firms like saradha we have kept schools open while these hotels will continue to run we will have a daytoday monitoring for those properties an ed official said