Anil Deshmukh
MUMBAI: The ED told the HC on Tuesday that a plea had been made before the special NIA court to record the statement of dismissed cop Sachin Waze to confront him with statements of Anil Deshmukh’s private secretary Sanjeev Palande and Deshmukh’s PA Kundan Shinde. The plea will be heard by the NIA court on Thursday. The ED had recorded Waze’s statement earlier too.
Last week, while seeking the duo’s custody, the ED had submitted that Palande, in his statement, said Deshmukh had a role in transfer postings of police officers, specially those in the IPS. The agency added that investigations had revealed a meeting was held to discuss transfers of police and IPS officers and that an unofficial list of candidates was prepared.
Anil Deshmukh has been questioned once though and officials have searched his residence and other premises in Mumbai and Nagpur (File photo)
MUMBAI: The former state home minister and his son, citing health concerns posed by Covid, have side-stepped two summons from ED so far in connection with the extortion and money laundering investigation registered against him and some senior police officers.
Anil Deshmukh has been questioned once though and officials have searched his residence and other premises in Mumbai and Nagpur.
It is the ED’s contention that Rs 4.18 crore in bribes were funnelled into a Nagpur-based trust run by Deshmukh and his son as donations and loans. It was done by routing funds via shell companies and two Delhi-based hawala operators Surendra and Virendra Jain.
Former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh’s personal assistant Kundan Shinde being taken to a Mumbai court on Saturday. (PTI photo)
MUMBAI: Of the money collected from bars and restaurants by dismissed cop Sachin Waze, Rs 4.7 crore was transferred to former state home minister Anil Deshmukh s Nagpur-based educational trust by his son, routing it through two hawala operators and showing it as donation, the enforcement directorate has said.
Late on Friday, ED arrested Deshmukh s private secretary Sanjeev Palande and his personal assistant Kundan Shinde (as reported in some editions) and a special court remanded them to ED custody till July 1. The ED, in its remand application seeking their custody, stated Palande and Shinde had played an active role in money laundering. Palande had coordinated with Waze, DCP Raju Bhujbal and ACP Sanjay Patil for allegedly illegally collecting money from the orchestra bar owners in Mumbai, and the amount was handed over to Shinde.