Mumbai: Nationalist Congress Social gathering (NCP) MLA Rohit Pawar, grandnephew of social gathering supremo Sharad Pawar, was summoned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday for questioning in reference to an alleged cash laundering probe.
The investigation is expounded to the Maharashtra State Cooperative (MSC) Financial institution rip-off case involving the alleged fraudulent disbursement of loans value Rs 25,000 crore.
In the meantime, the NCP employees staged a starvation strike protest exterior the NCP workplace in Mumbai in opposition to the investigations by the central company.
Earlier on January 24, ED had interrogated Rohit Pawar for about ten hours within the cash laundering case and summoned him once more for questioning on February 1.
After the day-long interrogation by the Enforcement Directorate on January 24, NCP chief Rohit Pawar attacked the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP)-led central authorities and stated the NCP will at all times struggle the federal government.
“We’re at all times preventing in opposition to this authorities and businesses. I submitted all the mandatory paperwork to ED and was summoned by them on February 1. I’ll go once more,” Pawar stated whereas speaking to reporters.
The MSC Financial institution rip-off of Rs 25,000 crores led to the submitting of a PIL petition within the Bombay Excessive Courtroom by 4 individuals.
The PIL sheds mild on the alleged modus operandi of the fraud. The petition alleged that some sugar mills have been unable to service the loans, which have been prolonged with out due diligence. These sugar mills have been seized by the MSC banks and auctioned to varied financial institution officers and politicians.
Beneath the PIL, the Bombay Excessive Courtroom ordered registration of a case. The Financial Offenses Wing (EOW), which falls underneath the Maharashtra authorities, has investigated the case. When EOW filed a closure report within the Bombay Session Courtroom in 2020, ED filed an intervention petition in opposition to the closure report and initiated an investigation.
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