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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut in connection with the Patra Chawl land scam case.
The Shiv Sena leader was arrested following the raid at his residence by the financial probe agency. His brother, Sunil Raut, was informed about the arrest.
Raut was booked under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 and will be produced in the PMLA court likely on Monday afternoon.
‘ED SCARED OF SANJAY RAUT’
“The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is scared of Sanjay Raut and that is why has placed him under arrest,” Sunil Raut said after the Shiv Sena MP was arrested by the ED in the land scam case.
There are bogus documents and there is nothing to connect Sanjay Raut to the Patra chawl case, he added.
ED DETAINS SANJAY RAUT
An Enforcement Directorate (ED) team showed up at Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut’s residence in Mumbai on Sunday Morning and detained him after conducting hours of search. Raut was probed in connection with a money laundering case linked to alleged irregularities involving the re-development of a Mumbai ‘chawl’.
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He was questioned by the probe agency from 7 pm.
ED ALLEGES NON-COOPERATION
According to ED sources, Sanjay Raut was not cooperating with the ED officers. When the officers asked him to leave for the ED office, he told them that he was a sitting MP and sought time till August 7, sources said.
Meanwhile, Sanjay Raut’s brother, Sunil, refuted the allegations of the Rauts not cooperating with the central agency’s investigation.
“We have let them look into all corners of our house. Accusations of non-cooperation are false,” he said.
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Sanjay Raut’s brother, Sunil, said the ED action had been taken against him due to his closeness to former Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray.
RS 11 LAKH CASH SEIZED
The ED seized cash worth Rs 11.50 lakh from the residence of Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday during the raid conducted in connection with the Patra chawl land scam case.
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