NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday conducted a search at former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh‘s premises in connection with a money laundering case, reported news agency ANI quoting its sources.
The search is going on at three places in Nagpur. Earlier in the week on August 2, the NCP leader skipped the Enforcement Directorate (ED) summons for questioning.
“Deshmukh has skipped summons and has sent a two-page letter to the agency through his advocate,” an ED official related to the probe told news agency IANS.
This was the third time Deshmukh skipped ED summons in connection with the case.
The ED had claimed its probe found that “Deshmukh, while acting as home minister of Maharashtra, with dishonest intention has received illegal gratification of approximately Rs 4.70 crore in cash from various orchestra bar owners, through (suspended) Sachin Waze, then the assistant police inspector of Mumbai Police.”
Anil Deshmukh has denied any wrongdoing in these instances and his lawyers have called the ED action against him unjustified.
(With inputs from agencies)
The search is going on at three places in Nagpur. Earlier in the week on August 2, the NCP leader skipped the Enforcement Directorate (ED) summons for questioning.
“Deshmukh has skipped summons and has sent a two-page letter to the agency through his advocate,” an ED official related to the probe told news agency IANS.
This was the third time Deshmukh skipped ED summons in connection with the case.
The ED had claimed its probe found that “Deshmukh, while acting as home minister of Maharashtra, with dishonest intention has received illegal gratification of approximately Rs 4.70 crore in cash from various orchestra bar owners, through (suspended) Sachin Waze, then the assistant police inspector of Mumbai Police.”
Anil Deshmukh has denied any wrongdoing in these instances and his lawyers have called the ED action against him unjustified.
(With inputs from agencies)
