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Digital Desk: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed the second charge sheet against former Home Minister of Maharashtra, Anil Deshmukh, in a money-laundering case on Wednesday.
The ED is investigating accusations against Deshmukh that he ordered former assistant inspector Sachin Vaze to extort Rs 100 crore a month from Mumbai clubs and eateries. Further, ED officers discovered that fired assistant inspector Sachin Vaze paid over Rs 4.7 crore after extorting it from the clubs and eateries.
The charge sheet of over 6,000 pages” named Deshmukh as the primary defendant. Moreover, his son Hrishikesh and Salil were also named in the money-laundering case.
On November 2, Deshmukh was arrested by ED and since then, he has been in Arthur Road jail in Mumbai.
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In August, the first charge sheet was submitted against Deshmukh’s personal secretary Sanjeev Palande and Kundan Shinde, his personal assistant. The charge sheet also implicated Deshmukh’s family-run educational charity, Shri Sai Shikshan Sanstha.
Additionally, ED is also investigating the issue of transfers and postings of the IPS and state police service officers when Deshmukh was Maharashtra’s Home Minister.
In the case, ED officers recorded Vaze’s statement twice. On March 20, the former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh accused in a letter to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray. Following this, a plea was filed at the Bombay High Court seeking a CBI inquiry against Deshmukh. The Bombay High Court then ordered a CBI investigation, which resulted in filing an FIR against Deshmukh.
The agency also recorded the statements of Maharashtra transport minister Anil Parab and former Chief Secretary Sitaram Kuntes.
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