MUMBAI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) recently recorded the statement of an accountant, Kishor Dewani, with whom former state home minister Anil Deshmukh’s son Salil owned land in Uran worth Rs 300 crore. The land was purchased from villagers in 2006, mostly by paying in cash.
While examining the land deal details, the ED learnt that the Deshmukh family had a dummy company through which they were controlling Premier Port Links Pvt Ltd, on whose name the land parcels were purchased. The Deshmukh family had no shareholding in Premier Port Links Pvt Ltd at that point of time, although Salil was one of the directors in the company. Kishor Dewani was managing the company on behalf of the Deshmukh family, ED sources said.