Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday filed a supplementary chargesheet against former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh in a money laundering case. The probe agency filed a 7,000-page chargesheet here before a special court dealing with cases related to the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), in which Deshmukh’s sons have also been named as accused.
The ED had earlier filed a chargesheet against 14 accused, including Deshmukh’s private secretary (an additional district magistrate level officer) Sanjeev Palande and personal assistant Kundan Shinde. Deshmukh was arrested by the ED on November 1 this year in a related case and is currently in judicial custody. The ED had launched a probe against Deshmukh and his associates after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed an FIR against the senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader on charges of corruption and abuse of official position on April 21 this year. .
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The ED’s case is that Deshmukh allegedly abused his position as state home minister and extorted Rs 4.70 crore from multiple bars in Mumbai through police officer Sachin Waje. Waje was dismissed from service after his arrest in the ‘Antilia’ bomb and Mansukh Hiran murder cases. This money laundering case pertains to the Shri Sai Educational Institute located in Nagpur, an educational trust controlled by the Deshmukh family.
According to the Anti-Money Laundering Agency, both Palande and Shinde were instrumental in the circulation and laundering of unaccounted money. Deshmukh, who resigned as the state’s home minister earlier this year, has repeatedly denied the allegations against him.