Mumbai: Nationalist Congress Occasion (NCP) MLA Rohit Pawar, grandnephew of occasion supremo Sharad Pawar, has been summoned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), for questioning on Thursday as a part of an alleged cash laundering probe.
The probe is in connection to the Maharashtra State Cooperative (MSC) Financial institution rip-off case that pertains to the alleged fraudulent disbursal of loans amounting to 25,000 crores.
In the meantime, the NCP staff staged a starvation strike protest exterior the NCP workplace in Mumbai towards the probes by the central company.
Earlier on January 24, ED had interrogated Rohit Pawar for about 10 hours within the cash laundering case and had known as him for interrogation once more on February 1.
After the day-long questioning by the Enforcement Directorate on January 24, NCP chief Rohit Pawar attacked the central authorities led by the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) and mentioned that the NCP will all the time battle towards the federal government.
“We always fight against this government and agencies. I have submitted all necessary documents to ED and I have been summoned on February 1 by them. I will go again,” mentioned Pawar whereas chatting with the reporters.
MSC Financial institution rip-off amounting to 25,000 crores triggered the submitting of a PIL Petition within the Bombay Excessive Court docket by 4 individuals.
The PIL make clear the alleged modus operandi of the fraud. Within the petition, it was alleged that some sugar mills defaulted on the loans, which got with out due diligence. These sugar mills have been hooked up by the MSC banks and auctioned to numerous workplace bearers of the financial institution and politicians.
Appearing on the PIL the Bombay Excessive Court docket ordered the registration of a case. The Financial Offences Wing(EOW), which is underneath the Maharashtra authorities, investigated the case. When EOW filed a closure report in 2020 within the Bombay Session Court docket, ED filed an intervention petition towards the closure report and began an investigation.
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