ED summons Sanjay Raut s wife Varsha again in money-laundering case
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Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued fresh summons to Varsha Raut, wife of Shiv Sena member of Parliament Sanjay Raut, for recording her statement in a money-laundering case.
The wife of the senior Sena leader is set to be questioned again as the agency has directed her to appear on January 11. She had come to the ED office on Monday where the agency questioned her for three and a half hours. The agency is probing transactions between Varsha Raut and Madhuri, the wife of the accused Pravin Raut. Pravin Raut has been associated with Guruashish Constructions, which is linked to the Housing Development Infrastructure Limited (HDIL). Over 73 per cent of the PMC Bankâs loan exposure was to HDIL, the ED probe revealed.
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Varsha Raut skipped the agency s notice thrice and is now expected appear before the ED in Mumbai on January 5.
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The ED on Friday said it has attached assets worth Rs 72 crore of a Maharashtra-based man whose wife s alleged transaction with Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut s spouse is under its scanner in the over Rs 4,300 crore PMC Bank money laundering case.
The central probe agency alleged that the man, Pravin Raut, had siphoned off Rs 95 crore worth of funds from the scam-hit bank in the garb of loan, out of which he paid Rs 1.6 crore to his wife, Madhuri Raut, who subsequently transferred Rs 55 lakh in two tranches to Varsha Raut, wife of Sanjay Raut, as an interest-free loa
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Sanjay Raut s wife Varsha s loan transaction linked with multi-crore PMC Bank scam: ED
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Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) investigation has revealed that Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut s wife, Varsha, received an interest-free loan of â¹55 lakh from accused Pravin Rautâs wife Madhuri which was used to purchase a flat in Dadar. The agency has alleged that the loan amount was acquired from the funds siphoned off from the multi-crore Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative (PMC) Bank scam case which has been touted as one of the biggest banking frauds.
The ED has summoned Varsha Raut who is slated to be questioned in the case on January 5. The summons has led to political leaders of the ruling Shiv Sena-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) taking pot-shots against each other, a few even putting up a banner outside the EDâs Mumbai office in Ballard Estate declaring it the Maharashtra branch of the BJP.
The ED on Friday said it has attached assets worth Rs 72 crore of a Maharashtra-based man whose wife s alleged transaction with Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut s spouse is under its scanner in the over Rs 4,300 crore PMC Bank money laundering case. The central probe agency alleged that the man, Pravin Raut, had siphoned off Rs 95 crore worth of funds from the scam-hit bank in the garb of loan, out of which he paid Rs 1.6 crore to his wife, Madhuri Raut, who subsequently transferred Rs 55 lakh in two tranches to Varsha Raut, wife of Sanjay Raut, as an interest-free loan. The ED recently summoned Varsha Raut for questioning with regard to this transaction and a few other deals leading to a political blame game between Maharashtra and the Centre with various constituents of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) led state government alleging that the Centre was using federal probe agencies to harass them.