Maharashtra Minister Anil Parab under ED lens | All you need to know

The ED, on Thursday, raided multiple locations across Maharashtra as part of a money laundering probe against state Transport Minister Anil Parab. Here is all you need to know about the case.

Anil Parab, a minister in the Maharashtra government cabinet and senior Shiv Sena leader, was raided by the Enforcement Directorate in a fresh case lodged against him by the agency. Top sources told India Today that seven premises in Maharashtra linked to Anil Parab were raided after a case was registered against him. The raids were conducted in connection with a resort connected to Anil Parab which was earlier searched by the Income Tax department.

In March this year, the IT department carried out a search operation for a cable operator in Mumbai, a transport department employee and the businesses related to him.

Searches were carried out at 26 locations in Mumbai, Pune, Sangli and Ratnagiri.

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During the search, it was found that a parcel of land in Maharashtra’s Dapoli was allegedly purchased by Anil Parab in 2017 for Rs 1 crore. The property was registered in 2019.

This land was subsequently sold to one of the persons covered in the search action in 2020 for a consideration of Rs 1.10 crore.

During this period, a resort was built on the same land between 2017 and 2020. By the time the parcel of land was registered in the name of Anil Parab, a large part of the construction of the resort was completed. Later, when the resort was almost complete, the property was sold by the politician to the cable operator in 2020.