PMC Bank money laundering case: ED summons Sanjay Raut’s wife for questioning | India News – Times of India
NEW DELHI: The ED has summoned Varsha Raut, wife of Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut, for questioning within the PMC Bank money laundering case on December 29, officers mentioned on Sunday.
Varsha Raut has been requested to look earlier than the federal company in Mumbai. This is the third summons issued to her after she skipped the sooner two on well being grounds, they mentioned.
The summons for questioning has been issued to her beneath the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
The ED needs to query Varsha Raut with regard to “receipt” of some funds that have been allegedly siphoned from the financial institution, official sources claimed.
Reacting to the event, Sanjay Raut advised TOI that he didn’t obtain any discover from ED. “I have not received any notice from ED and I do not care even if I receive it. They (ED) should do their work, if it would be legal and they should be more careful if it would be illegal,” mentioned Raut.
The ED had filed a PMLA case to probe the alleged mortgage fraud within the Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative (PMC) Bank in October final 12 months towards the Housing Development Infrastructure Ltd (HDIL), its promoters Rakesh Kumar Wadhawan and his son Sarang Wadhawan, its former chairman Waryam Singh and ex-managing director Joy Thomas.
The company took cognisance of a Mumbai Police Economic Offences Wing FIR towards them for allegedly inflicting “wrongful loss, prima facie to the tune of Rs 4,355 crore to PMC Bank, and corresponding gains to themselves”.
The Shiv Sena, which is a component of Maharashtra’s ruling alliance Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) together with the NCP and the Congress, had earlier alleged that central probe companies have been focusing on them unfairly.
Former BJP chief Eknath Khadse, who just lately joined Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), has additionally been summoned by the ED for questioning on December 30 in Mumbai in reference to a money laundering case linked to a land deal in Pune’s Bhosri space.
