The Enforcement Directorate (ED) said on Friday that it has attached properties worth Rs 4.20 crores belonging to former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh and his family under Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in a corruption case.The attached assets are in the form of one residential flat valued at Rs 1.54 crores, located at Worli, Mumbai, and 25 land parcels of book value Rs 2.67 crores, located at Dhutum villages in Uran, Raigarh district of Maharashtra.
On June 26, the ED arrested Deshmukh's personal secretary Sanjeev Palande and personal assistant Kundan Shinde in connection with an alleged 'hafta' case. In its remand copy of the two officials of Deshmukh, the ED said that over Rs 4 crore collected from bar owners between December 2020 and February 2021 was routed to Deshmukh's charitable trust in Nagpur, through four shell companies in Delhi.
Deshmukh (72), is facing an ED investigation on the basis of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) case as the fallout of the allegations made in a letter penned by former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh, who is now the Commandant-General of Home Guards.
Singh had alleged in his letter to chief minister Uddhav Thackeray in March that Deshmukh had fixed a collection target of Rs 100 crore per month for sacked assistant police inspector Sachin Vaze, who was the then head of the Crime Intelligence Unit of the elite Crime Branch-CID of the Mumbai Police. Thereafter, Singh had approached the Supreme Court which directed him to go to Bombay High Court where the CBI was asked to conduct a preliminary enquiry.