More trouble for Anil Deshmukh! After raids, ED says 10 Mumbai bar owners paid Rs 4 crore to ex-Maharashtra HM for three months

The ED has registered a case in opposition to Anil Deshmukh primarily based on an FIR filed by the CBI in April. (File)

Troubles seem like mounting for former Maharashtra Residence Minister and NCP chief Anil Deshmukh, who’s going through money-laundering allegations. In response to a report by The Indian Categorical, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has discovered a cash path of Rs 4 crore linked to Deshmukh. The cash was allegedly paid to Anil Deshmukh for 3 months by about 10 Mumbai bar house owners. The ED has already carried out raids at 4 areas immediately which included Deshmukh’s Nagpur and Mumbai residences in reference to its probe into the money-laundering case.

The probe company additionally searched the residences of Deshmukh’s private assistant Kundan Shinde and private secretary Sanjeev Palande. Each had been later taken to ED’s Ballard Property workplace for questioning within the Deshmukh case. In response to experiences, the ED has already recorded statements of over 10 bar house owners.

The ED’s investigation is according to the Central Bureau of Investigation’s probe into allegations that Deshmukh had requested law enforcement officials, together with Sachin Vaze, to extort Rs 100 crore every month from 1,750 bars and eating places in Mumbai. Vaze was arrested within the Antilia Bomb scare case and Mansukh Hiran homicide case. He was an assistant police inspector (API) with Mumbai Police and is at the moment in NIA’s custody.

Vaze and former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh have levelled extortion allegations in opposition to the NCP chief, which the previous minister has denied.

The ED has registered a case in opposition to Anil Deshmukh primarily based on an FIR filed by the CBI in April. Alternatively, Vaze had earlier accused Shiv Sena chief and Transport Minister Anil Parab of corruption apart from Deshmukh in a letter to the NIA. Vaze additionally alleged that Anil Deshmukh had demanded Rs 2 crore for the now-suspended API’s reinstatement within the Mumbai Police in 2020. After a suspension that lasted a decade and a half in a case of custodial demise, Vaze rejoined the Mumbai Police in 2020.