An Enforcement Directorate (ED) team reached the residence of Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut in Mumbai on Sunday. The ED was looking at Raut in a money laundering case related to alleged irregularities in the redevelopment of a ‘chawl’ in Mumbai.
Raut was earlier summoned by the probe agency in the Patra Chawl land scam case on July 20, which he dropped and informed his lawyers that due to the ongoing Parliament session, he could appear only after August 7. He recorded his statement on 1 July. for the first time. In the case, the ED had attached Raut’s properties in Dadar and Alibaug.
Mumbai | Enforcement Directorate officer in Patra rice land scam case at Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut’s residence pic.twitter.com/gFYdvR89zU
— ANI (@ANI) 31 July 2022
The agency wants to question Sanjay Raut about his “business and other relations” with Praveen Raut and Patkar as well as his wife’s property deals, the report said. According to sources, Raut is likely to be questioned today.
Sources also told CNN-News18 that Raut was at home with his wife, mother and his MLA brother Sunil Raut.
Maharashtra and Shiv Sena Ladhil.
— sanjay raut (@rautsanjay61) 31 July 2022
Amid the developments, Raut also sent out a tweet, which said: “Maharashtra and Shiv Sena will keep fighting”. He later called it a ‘false case, false evidence’. “I have nothing to do with any scam. I am saying this by taking oath as Shiv Sena chief Balasaheb Thackeray..Balasaheb taught us to fight…I will continue to fight for Shivsena.’
What is Patra Chal land scam case?
Guru Ashish Construction Pvt Ltd signed an agreement with the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) in 2007 to provide new homes to 672 tenants of Patra Chawl in the suburbs of Goregaon, Mumbai, then developed flats for MHADA. and sold the remaining area to the private sector. Developers.
However, the ED claims that Praveen Raut and other directors of Guru Ashish Construction did not build a single house for the 672 displaced tenants. He actually sold Floor Space Index to nine private developers for Rs 901.79 crore.
In addition, Guru Ashish Construction started a project called The Meadows and received bookings of around Rs 138 crore from flat buyers. According to the ED, the total proceeds of crime from these “illegal activities” of Guru Ashish Construction is Rs 1,039.79 crore.
What does ED say?
According to the ED, their probe revealed that Praveen received Rs 100 crore from HDIL and “diverted” it to various accounts of “his close associates, family members and business entities”, including Sanjay Raut’s family.
The ED also said that in 2010, Varsha Raut received Rs 83 lakh in criminal proceeds directly or indirectly from Madhuri Raut, wife of Praveen Raut. Varsha Raut used this money to buy Dadar apartment. It also emerged that Varsha Raut transferred Rs 55 lakh to Madhuri Raut after the ED’s investigation began. There are many other transactions also,” the ED said.
“During the said period, eight plots on Kihim beach in Alibaug were also purchased in the name of Swapna Patkar, wife of Sujit Patkar, a close aide of Varsha Raut and Sanjay Raut. In this land deal, the sellers were paid cash in addition to the registered price. On identification of these properties and other properties of Praveen Raut, a provisional order has been issued to attach all these properties of Praveen Raut and his associates,” the ED had said earlier, as per reports.
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