The ED case probing Ajit Pawar and associates
An ailing sugar mill in Satara district was undervalued, auctioned, and eventually leased. This is just the tip of the iceberg, as per the ED. An explainer | Mumbai news
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An ailing sugar mill in Satara district was undervalued, auctioned, and eventually leased. This is just the tip of the iceberg, as per the ED. An explainer | Mumbai news
India News: In its chargesheet submitted in April, the ED said Jarandeshwar Sugar Mills Pvt Ltd, a company formed with the same first name as the factory, that wa
The ED’s probe was initiated on the basis of a First Information Report, dated August 26, 2019, registered by Mumbai Police’s Economic Offence Wing (EOW) under various sections of the Indian Penal Code including criminal conspiracy and cheating and the Prevention of Corruption Act.
The agency has stated that investigation into specific activities of others suspected to be involved in the offence of money laundering is likely to take more time.
ED’s money laundering case is based on Mumbai police’s FIR in August 2019 which said that the then officials and directors of Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank had fraudulently sold the cooperative sugar mills at throw-away prices to relatives and private persons without following due procedure under SARFAESI Act.