By PTI
MUMBAI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned Varsha Raut, spouse of arrested Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut, for questioning in a cash laundering investigation linked to alleged irregularities within the redevelopment of a neighborhood ‘chawl’ and linked transactions, officers stated on Thursday.
Varsha Raut is anticipated to be confronted along with her husband and another accused concerned within the case as soon as she deposes earlier than the central company at its workplace in Ballard Estate later this week.
Sanjay Raut was arrested by the ED on this case on August 1 and a neighborhood court docket on Thursday despatched him to additional custody until August 8.
The ED had earlier advised the court docket that Sanjay Raut and his household obtained “proceeds of crime” price over Rs 1 crore generated out of alleged irregularities within the housing redevelopment challenge.
The 60-year-old Rajya Sabha member is a detailed aide of Shiv Sena president and former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray. He had denied any wrongdoing and had known as the ED case in opposition to him as “false”.
In April, the ED had provisionally connected property price over Rs 11.15 crore of Varsha Raut and two of associates of Sanjay Raut as a part of its probe.
The connected properties are within the type of land held by Pravin M Raut, Sanjay Raut’s aide and a former director of Guru Ashish Construction Private Limited, at Palghar, Saphale (a city in Palghar) and Padgha (in Thane district).
The properties additionally embody a flat in Mumbai suburb Dadar held by Varsha Raut and eight plots on the Kihim seaside in Alibaug collectively held by Varsha Raut and Swapna Patkar, the spouse of Sujit Patkar, a “close associate” of Sanjay Raut, the ED had stated.
The company is known to have been questioning Sanjay Raut about his “business and other links” with Pravin Raut and Patkar and in addition concerning the property offers involving his spouse.
After arresting Pravin Raut in February, the ED had stated he seems to be “acting as a front” or in collusion with some influential individual. The company had additionally stated Pravin Raut had made funds to sure “politically-exposed persons”.
In the Alibaug land deal, other than the registered worth, “cash” funds had been made to the sellers, the company had alleged.
Pravin Raut was arrested by the ED in a probe linked to a Rs 1,034-crore alleged land rip-off associated to the redevelopment of the Patra “chawl” in Mumbai’s Goregaon space. He is at the moment in judicial custody.
Guru Ashish Construction Private Limited was concerned within the redevelopment of the “chawl”, which had 672 tenants residing in tenements on 47 acres belonging to the Maharashtra Housing Area Development Authority (MHADA), the ED had stated earlier.
MUMBAI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned Varsha Raut, spouse of arrested Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut, for questioning in a cash laundering investigation linked to alleged irregularities within the redevelopment of a neighborhood ‘chawl’ and linked transactions, officers stated on Thursday.
Varsha Raut is anticipated to be confronted along with her husband and another accused concerned within the case as soon as she deposes earlier than the central company at its workplace in Ballard Estate later this week.
Sanjay Raut was arrested by the ED on this case on August 1 and a neighborhood court docket on Thursday despatched him to additional custody until August 8.
The ED had earlier advised the court docket that Sanjay Raut and his household obtained “proceeds of crime” price over Rs 1 crore generated out of alleged irregularities within the housing redevelopment challenge.
The 60-year-old Rajya Sabha member is a detailed aide of Shiv Sena president and former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray. He had denied any wrongdoing and had known as the ED case in opposition to him as “false”.
In April, the ED had provisionally connected property price over Rs 11.15 crore of Varsha Raut and two of associates of Sanjay Raut as a part of its probe.
The connected properties are within the type of land held by Pravin M Raut, Sanjay Raut’s aide and a former director of Guru Ashish Construction Private Limited, at Palghar, Saphale (a city in Palghar) and Padgha (in Thane district).
The properties additionally embody a flat in Mumbai suburb Dadar held by Varsha Raut and eight plots on the Kihim seaside in Alibaug collectively held by Varsha Raut and Swapna Patkar, the spouse of Sujit Patkar, a “close associate” of Sanjay Raut, the ED had stated.
The company is known to have been questioning Sanjay Raut about his “business and other links” with Pravin Raut and Patkar and in addition concerning the property offers involving his spouse.
After arresting Pravin Raut in February, the ED had stated he seems to be “acting as a front” or in collusion with some influential individual. The company had additionally stated Pravin Raut had made funds to sure “politically-exposed persons”.
In the Alibaug land deal, other than the registered worth, “cash” funds had been made to the sellers, the company had alleged.
Pravin Raut was arrested by the ED in a probe linked to a Rs 1,034-crore alleged land rip-off associated to the redevelopment of the Patra “chawl” in Mumbai’s Goregaon space. He is at the moment in judicial custody.
Guru Ashish Construction Private Limited was concerned within the redevelopment of the “chawl”, which had 672 tenants residing in tenements on 47 acres belonging to the Maharashtra Housing Area Development Authority (MHADA), the ED had stated earlier.
