Cop Sachin Waze Collected Rs 4.7 Crore In Cash From Mumbai Bar Owners: ED

The probe agency claimed that Sachin Waze informed bar owners and managers that the money "will go to No. 1 and crime branch and social service branch of Mumbai Police".

Suspended Mumbai police officer Sachin Waze has told the Enforcement Directorate (ED) that he "collected" Rs 4.70 crore in cash from the city's bar owners and "handed it over" to the personal assistant of former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh, the central probe agency said today. The agency also claimed that Waze, the former head of Crime Intelligence Unit (CIU) of Mumbai police, informed the bar owners and managers that this money "will go to No. 1 and crime branch and social service branch of Mumbai Police". Waze further told the agency that "he was getting direct instructions from Anil Deshmukh, the then home minister, in a number of police investigations". The ED made these allegations in its remand application field before a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in Mumbai while the seeking custody of Anil Deshmukh's aides, personal secretary Sanjeev Palande (51) and personal assistant Kundan Shinde (45) who were arrested by the agency earlier today.