Former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh was taken into ED custody till November 6th by a special court. The arrest was made in connection to the money laundering case being investigated by the Enforcement Directorate.
He was questioned for twelve hours last night. Deshmukh faces charges of corruption and money laundering after former Maharashtra Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh released a letter alleging corruption by the Anil Deshmukh. This led to a big political turmoil in a state already riled by many controversies.
He was produced before the court and the arguments on the remand plea commenced at 12.30 pm, with ASG Anil Singh seeking 14 days custody. Deshmukh was arrested shortly after midnight, hours after he arrived at the ED office to record his statement around noon on Monday.
The ED in its first chargesheet alleged that Deshmukh, through his PA Kundan Shinde, had collected Rs 4.7 crore from now dismissed assistant police inspector Sachin Waze in cash. Waze was then heading the CIU branch of Mumbai police and had collected the money from orchestra bar owners of Mumbai illegally for Deshmukh.
From that money, Rs 4.18 crore was transferred to Deshmukh’s Nagpur-based educational trust through shell companies with the help of Delhi-based hawala operators Surendra Jain and Virendra Jain, showing it as donation.
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