On Monday, ED's counsel, Hiten Venegaonkar, told the court that Raut and his family were direct beneficiaries of Rs.1.06 crore of the Rs.112 crore received by Pravin Raut from real estate firm Housing Development and Infrastructure Limited (HDIL).
Digital Desk: Shiv Sena chief Sanjay Raut
will be produced in a special court on Thursday, after his three-day detention
by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). On Monday, the court remanded Raut in the
custody of the ED after the agency said he and his family received 1.06 crore
in "tainted money" from his "front man," Pravin Raut, who
was arrested earlier in the case.
Sanjay Raut was arrested late Sunday night in connection
with a money laundering case filed in connection with the Patra Chawl
redevelopment project. On Monday, ED's counsel, Hiten Venegaonkar, told the
court that Raut and his family were direct beneficiaries of Rs.1.06 crore of
the Rs.112 crore received by Pravin Raut from real estate firm Housing
Development and Infrastructure Limited (HDIL).
Varsha Raut, Sanjay Raut's wife, was shown to
have received 13.94 lakh as a return on her investment of 5,625 in Avani
Infrastructure, a firm registered in the name of Pravin Raut's wife, Madhuri.
The ED's case against Raut is based on an
earlier one filed in March 2018 against HDIL promoters Rakesh Wadhawan and his
son Sarang Wadhawan, Guruashish Construction Pvt Ltd - a subsidiary of HDIL
that oversaw the redevelopment of Patra Chawl in Goregaon - and its director
Pravin Raut, among others.
The ED claimed Sanjay Raut was also a part of
a larger plot hatched by the Wadhawans and Pravin Raut to steal money from the
Patra Chawl project. The Rauts, according to the ED's remand application,
floated Avani Infrastructure for the purpose.
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