- Anil Deshmukh, an NCP leader, was arrested on November 1 under PMLA
- The 71-year-old is currently lodged in Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai
- The money laundering case against him was initiated by the ED after the CBI booked him on April 21
Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate has named former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh as the main accused in the 7000-page supplementary chargesheet filed in Mumbai’s special PMLA court in a money-laundering case linked to an alleged extortion racket in the state police establishment.
The two sons of Deshmukh have also been named in the chargesheet.
Deshmukh, an NCP leader, was arrested on November 1 under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) after hours of questioning by the ED. The 71-year-old is currently lodged in Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai.
The money laundering case against Deshmukh and others was initiated by the ED after the CBI booked him on April 21 on the charges of corruption following former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh’s Rs 100 crore bribery allegations against him.
The probe into the alleged Rs 100 crore bribery-cum-extortion racket in the Maharashtra Police establishment led to Deshmukh’s resignation in April.
The federal probe agency had earlier told the special court 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.”
“Further, with the help of Delhi-based dummy companies, Deshmukh family laundered the tainted money of Rs 4.18 crore and projected it as untainted by showing the same as amount received in the Trust namely Shri Sai Shikshan Sanstha,” the ED had alleged.
Deshmukh, however, refuted the corruption allegations and denied any wrongdoing.
