ED issues fresh summons to Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut in money laundering case
India Today
Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut has been issued a fresh summons by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with a money laundering case.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued a fresh summons to Shiv Sena leader and MP Sanjay Raut in a money laundering case. Sanjay Raut has been asked to appear before the agency on July 27 after he skipped the summons on Wednesday.
The Shiv Sena MP's lawyers met ED officials in Mumbai with his written response to the summons and sought time for him after the first week of August. However, the ED asked Sanjay Raut to depose before the federal probe agency on July 27.
Sanjay Raut had received the first summons by the ED in connection with the Rs 1,034-crore Patra Chawl land scam case amid the Maharashtra political crisis on June 27. He had appeared before the ED in Mumbai to record his statement in connection with the Patra Chawl land scam case on July 1.
WHAT IS THE CASE?
In April, the ED had provisionally attached assets worth over Rs 11.15 crore of Sanjay Raut's wife, Varsha, and two of his associates as part of their investigation in Patra Chawl land scam case.
The attached properties are in the form of land held by Pravin M Raut, Sanjay Raut's aide, and a former director of Guru Ashish Construction Pvt Ltd, at Palghar, Saphale (town in Palghar) and Padgha (in Thane district).
The attached properties also include a flat in Mumbai's suburb Dadar held by Varsha Raut and eight plots at Kihim beach in Alibaug jointly held by Varsha Raut and Swapna Patkar, wife of Sujit Patkar, a "close associate" of Sanjay Raut, the ED had said.
