ED raids ex-Maharashtra minister Anil Deshmukh’s home in alleged money laundering case

The Enforcement Directorate on Friday raided the home of former Maharashtra minister Anil Deshmukh in Nagpur in connection with an alleged money laundering case, ANI reported. Deshmukh, who held the home portfolio in the Uddhav Thackeray Cabinet in Maharashtra, resigned from his post in April after he was accused of corruption.

The Central Bureau of Investigation filed a First Information Report on the matter. Later, the Enforcement Directorate also filed a money laundering case against the Nationalist Congress Party leader, based on the FIR filed by the CBI.

Maharashtra: Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh’s residence in Nagpur, in connection with an alleged money laundering case.

Visuals from outside his residence. pic.twitter.com/PD69rBSOsv

— ANI (@ANI) June 25, 2021

Charges against Deshmukh

On March 20, former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh had accused Deshmukh of extorting money from bars, restaurants and hookah parlours in Mumbai. In a letter to Thackeray, Singh alleged that suspended police officer Sachin Vaze told him that Deshmukh had asked him to collect Rs 100 crore every month through illegal channels.

Vaze was suspended and sent to the custody of the National Investigation Agency for his alleged role in placing the explosives-laden vehicle at Carmichael Road, near the residence of industrialist Mukesh Ambani in Mumbai, on March 15. Two days later, Singh, who was…

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