New Delhi, May 15 The Enforcement Directorate has sent fresh summons to Maharashtra NCP chief and MLA Jayant Patil in the alleged IL&FS money laundering case, and he has been asked to appear before the agency on May 22.
Earlier, Patil was asked to join the probe on May 12, but he did not appear before the agency. In the second notice, the ED has asked him to join the probe on May 22.
The (ED) on May 10 had raided the premises of IL&FS.
Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO), Mumbai, had lodged a case against IL&FS Group of Companies and their key managerial personnel for alleged financial irregularities.
The Delhi Police's Economic Offences Wing (EOW) had also lodged an FIR against the firm.
In 2019, the ED lodged a case of PMLA against IL&FS on the basis of the EOW's FIR and SFIO's complaint.
The ED has learnt in the investigation that the Statutory Audit of IL&FS was made by Deloitte Haskins & Sells LLP for the period from FY 2008-09 to 2017-18 and by BSR & Associates for the period FY 2017-18.
In 2018, the IL&FS moved for bankruptcy. The ED has as of now attached some assets belonging to different firms in this matter.
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