Sanjay Raut arrested by ED in Patra Chawl land scam case

India

oi-Madhuri Adnal

Mumbai, Aug 01: Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut has been arrested by Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a cash laundering case linked to alleged irregularities within the redevelopment of a Mumbai’s Patra Chawl case.

Raut, 60, was arrested after over six hours of questioning on the ED’s zonal workplace in south Mumbai’s Ballard Property. He has been taken into custody at 12:05 am on Monday below the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA) as he was not cooperating within the probe, the officers claimed.

The Rajya Sabha MP of the Sena, led by former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, can be produced earlier than a particular PMLA courtroom in Mumbai at 11.30 am on August 1, the place the Enforcement Directorate will search his custody.

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Earlier than getting into the ED workplace, Raut instructed reporters that the federal company’s motion was geared toward making an attempt to weaken the Shiv Sena and Maharashtra and {that a} ”false” case was ready towards him.

The ED probe pertains to alleged monetary irregularities within the redevelopment of Patra ‘chawl’ and associated monetary property transactions involving his spouse and alleged associates.

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In April, the ED provisionally hooked up belongings price over Rs 11.15 crore belonging to his spouse Varsha Raut and two of his associates as a part of this investigation.

The hooked up properties are within the type of land held by Pravin M Raut, Sanjay Raut’s aide and a former director of Guru Ashish Development Pvt Ltd, at Palghar, Saphale (city in Palghar) and Padgha (in Thane district).

These belongings additionally embody a flat in Mumbai’s suburb Dadar held by Varsha Raut and eight plots at Kihim seaside in Alibaug collectively held by Varsha Raut and Swapna Patkar, spouse of Sujit Patkar, a ”shut affiliate” of Sanjay Raut, the ED had stated.

The company is known to have questioned the Sena chief about his ”enterprise and different hyperlinks” with Pravin Raut and Patkar and in addition in regards to the property offers involving his spouse.