: ED attaches NCP leader Anil Deshmukh’s assets worth Rs 4.2 crore in money laundering case #IndiaNEWS The Enforcement Directorate on Friday attached assets worth Rs 4.2 crore belonging to former Maharashtra

ED attaches NCP leader Anil Deshmukh’s assets worth Rs 4.2 crore in money laundering case #IndiaNEWS
The Enforcement Directorate on Friday attached assets worth Rs 4.2 crore belonging to former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh and his family in connection with a money laundering case.The attached assets include a residential flat worth Rs 1.54 crore, located in Worli, Mumbai, and 25 land parcels valued at Rs 2.67 crore located in Dhutum village of Maharashtra’s Raigad district, the central agency said in a statement.The Enforcement Directorate said that its investigation found that Deshmukh, during his tenure as the Maharashtra home minister, “received illegal gratification of approximately Rs 4.70 crore in cash from various orchestra bar owners??? through Assistant Police Inspector Sachin Vaze, who has now been suspended from his post.The investigating agency found that Deshmukh’s family was also involved in the case. The family laundered Rs 4.18 crore through Delhi-based dummy companies and declared it as amount received by a trust named Shri Sai Shikshan Sanstha, the ED said.The Worli flat attached by ED was paid for in cash in 2004 and registered in the name of Aarti Deshmukh, the minister’s wife. However, the sale deed for the property was done in February this year, during Deshmukh’s tenure as home minister.The minister also acquired 50% partnership in a private company by the name “M/s Premier Port...Read more

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