ED attaches property price Rs 72-cr property of individual whose spouse transferred funds to Sanjay Raut’s partner

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED), investigating the multi-crore PMC Bank rip-off through which Shiv Sena chief Sanjay Raut’s spouse is embroiled, on Friday hooked up property price Rs 72 crores underneath the Prevention of cash laundering Act.
These properties belong to Pravin Raut, reportedly a detailed relative of Shiv Sena chief Sanjay Raut. It was Raut’s spouse who allegedly transferred cash to Sanjay Raut’s spouse. He has earlier been questioned and arrested by the ED in the identical case.
The probe company claims that Pravin Raut, had “siphoned off” Rs 95 crore price of funds from the scam-hit PMC financial institution within the garb of mortgage, out of which he paid Rs 1.6 crore to his spouse, Madhuri Raut, who subsequently transferred Rs 55 lakh in two tranches to Varsha Raut, spouse of Sanjay Raut, as an “interest-free loan.”
The ED just lately summoned Varsha Raut for questioning with regard to this transaction and some different offers, triggering political blamegame between Maharashtra govt and Centre.
Varsha Raut skipped the company”s discover thrice and is now anticipated to hitch probe earlier than the ED in Mumbai on January 5.

Sanjay Raut had denied any wrongdoing on a part of his spouse and stated they have been in correspondence with the ED.
59-year-old Sanjay Raut is a Rajya Sabha MP and in addition a spokesperson of the Shiv Sena, which is main the Maha-Aghadi alliance govt in Maharashtra.