Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut, arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case, will be produced before a special court here on Thursday. Raut’s ED custody, granted by the court on Monday, ends on Thursday.
The central agency had arrested Raut on Sunday midnight in connection with alleged financial irregularities in the redevelopment of Patra ‘chawls’ (old row houses) in suburban Goregaon and financial property transactions involving his wife and alleged associates.
The ED on Monday produced Raut before Justice MG Deshpande of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court and sought his remand for eight days. But the court sent the Shiv Sena leader to the agency’s custody till August 4.
The agency had told the court on Monday that Raut and his family received “crime proceeds” of over Rs one crore arising out of alleged irregularities in the housing redevelopment project. The 60-year-old Rajya Sabha member is a close aide of Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray.
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