Anil Deshmukh got over ₹4 crore from bar owners, ED tells court
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‘Former home minister’s arrested aides involved in money laundering of around ₹100 cr.’
A special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court on Saturday granted custody till July 1 of Kundan Shinde and Sanjeev Palande to Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the money laundering case against former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh, and others. While seeking their custody, after their arrest early on Saturday, the ED told the court, “Mr. Shinde has been instrumental in collecting cash from suspended assistant police officer Sachin Vaze on behalf of Mr. Deshmukh. Mr. Palande was the then private secretary to Mr. Deshmukh and was instrumental in passing on instructions of Mr. Deshmukh with regard to transfer postings and collection of monies from orchestra bars and further, analysing and assessing the work of collection of tainted monies through police officials.” ED said that the duo have emerged as important cogs in the wheels and were directly involved in money laundering around ₹100 crore.
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