Anil Deshmukh Named As Main Accused In ED’s 7000-Page Supplementary Chargesheet
Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate has named former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh as the prime accused in a 7000-page supplementary charge sheet filed in a special PMLA court in Mumbai in a money laundering case related to an alleged extortion racket at a state police establishment.
The two sons of Deshmukh have also been named in the charge sheet.
NCP leader Deshmukh was arrested on November 1 after hours of questioning by the ED under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). The 71-year-old is currently lodged in Mumbai’s Arthur Road Jail.
The money laundering case against Deshmukh and others was initiated by the ED after the CBI registered a case against them on corruption charges, followed by a Rs 100 crore case against former Mumbai Police cop Param Bir Singh on April 21.
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Deshmukh had resigned in April over the probe into the Rs 100 crore bribery-cum-extortion racket at the Maharashtra Police Establishment.
The Federal Investigation Agency had earlier told the special court that “Deshmukh, while serving as the Home Minister of Maharashtra, illegally received approximately Rs 4.70 crore in cash from various orchestra bar owners, through (suspended) Sachin Waze, then the assistant police inspector of Mumbai Police.”
“Further, with the help of Delhi-based dummy companies, Deshmukh family laundered the tainted money of Rs 4.18 crore and projected it as untainted by showing the same as amount received in the Trust namely Shri Sai Shikshan Sanstha,” the ED had alleged.
Deshmukh, however, refuted the corruption allegations and denied any wrongdoing.
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