ED Arrests Shiv Sena Leader Sanjay Raut In Alleged Money Laundering Case In Mumbai
Mumbai: Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut was arrested by Enforcement Directorate on Sunday night, after hours of questioning in relation to alleged money laundering linked to the redevelopment of a Mumbai chawl.
According to media reports, Sanjay Raut was taken into custody at 12:05 am under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) as he was not cooperating in the investigation.
Yesterday, an ED team raided Raut’s residence for hours and later called him to its Mumbai office for questioning in a money laundering case related to the redevelopment of a chawl in the city.
The attached properties are in the form of land near Palghar, Safal (a city in Palghar) and Padgha (in Thane district), owned by Praveen M Raut, an associate of Sanjay Raut and former director of Guru Ashish Construction Pvt Ltd.
In April, the ED had provisionally attached assets worth over Rs 11.15 crore of his wife Varsha Raut and two of his associates as part of the probe.
The attached properties are in the form of land near Palghar, Safal (a city in Palghar) and Padgha (in Thane district), owned by Praveen M Raut, an associate of Sanjay Raut and former director of Guru Ashish Construction Pvt Ltd.
The ED had said that these properties included a flat of Varsha Raut in the Dadar suburb of Mumbai and eight plots at Kihim Beach in Alibaug, jointly owned by Varsha Raut and Swapna Patkar, wife of Sanjay Raut’s close aide Sujit Patkar.
The agency is understood to have questioned the Sena leader about his “business and other links” with Pravin Raut and Patkar and also about the property deals involving his wife.
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