NEW DELHI: The DE has summoned Varsha Raut, wife of Shiv Sena deputy Sanjay Raut, for questioning in the PMC Bank money laundering case on December 29, officials said Sunday.
Varsha Raut has been asked to appear before the federal agency in Mumbai. This is the third summons issued to her after she skipped the previous two for health reasons, they said.
The summons for interrogation has been issued under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
The ED wants to question Varsha Raut regarding the “receipt” of some funds that were allegedly diverted from the bank, official sources said.
In reaction to the development, Sanjay Raut told TOI that he did not receive any notice from ED. “I have not received any notice from ED and I don’t even care if I do. They (ED) should do their job, if it was legal and they should be more careful if it would be illegal, ”Raut said.
The DE had filed a PMLA case to investigate alleged loan fraud at the Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative Bank (PMC) in October last year against Housing Development Infrastructure Ltd (HDIL), its promoters Rakesh Kumar Wadhawan and his son Sarang Wadhawan . its former president Waryam Singh and former managing director Joy Thomas.
The agency learned of an FIR from the Mumbai Police Economic Crimes Wing against them for allegedly causing “illicit losses, prima facie in the amount of Rs 4,355 million to PMC Bank, and profits corresponding to themselves.”
The Shiv Sena, who is part of the ruling Maharashtra alliance, Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), along with the NCP and Congress, had previously alleged that central investigative agencies had unfairly attacked them.
Former BJP leader Eknath Khadse, who recently joined Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), was also subpoenaed by the ED for questioning on December 30 in Mumbai in connection with a money laundering case linked to a land deal in the Bhosri area of Pune.
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