The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed the first charge sheet in connection with the former Maharashtra Home Minister and senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Anil Deskhmukh bribery case.
The ED on Monday also filed a chargesheet against former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh's aides Kundan Shinde and Sanjeev Palande in an alleged money laundering case.
According to ED officials, the 4,500 page charge sheet was filed before a Special PMLA court. The arrest of Palande and Shinde were done after carrying out searches against them and the NCP leader in Mumbai and Nagpur.
On the other hand, Deshmukh has been accused of extortion from a bunch of Mumbai orchestra bars and of money laundering. So far, Deshmukh and his son Hrishikesh Deshmukh had skipped the ED's summons on several occasions. The ED registered a case of money laundering on the basis of the FIR registered by the CBI.
It has been alleged that by ED that bar owners paid ₹ 1.64 crore and ₹ 2.66 crore to Mumbai Police's Zone 1 to 7 and Zone 8 to 12. Furthermore, the collection was allegedly done by the now-dismissed Mumbai police officer Sachin Waze on Deshmukh's behest. Later, this amount was transferred to Deshmukh's Nagpur-based educational trust by his son, Hrishikesh. According to the allegation, the transaction was routed via two hawala operators and was showed as a "donation". Deshmukh is the president of the trust while his two sons, Salil and Hrishikesh, are trustees.
The case was registered against NCP leader on May 11, and on June 25, the ED raided Deshmukh's residences in Nagpur, Mumbai and three other places. Earlier, in April, the CBI had conducted raids at four premises of Deshmukh after registering an FIR against him in connection with the case.
Param Bir Singh, former Commissioner of Mumbai Police, in his letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, had alleged that Deshmukh had indulged in "malpractices" and asked Waze to collect INR100 crore every month.
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