Money laundering case: ED summons Anil Deshmukh for questioning on July 5

The Enforcement Directorate ED has once again summoned former Maharashtra Hone Minister and Nationalist Congress Party NCP leader Anil Deshmukh for questioning on July 5 in connection with the alleged bribery charges This is the third summon to Deshmukh in a weekAn ED source related to probe said that the financial probe agency has summoned Deshmukh to record his statement on July 5Deshmukh had earlier skipped two summons of the ED in the caseOn June 29 Deshmukh skipped the second summon citing Covid pandemic and said that he was ready to join the probe through any video or audio mediumDeshmukh had skipped the EDs first summons last week also following searches at his residence in Nagpur He had sought more time to appear before the financial probe agencyThe NCP leader also said that he would furnish all information and documents sought by the ED after the agency provided him a copy of the Enforcement Case Information Report ECIR filed by it in the case He further mentioned that the ED summons do not clarify the purpose of his personal appearance before itOn June 26 the ED arrested Deshmukhs personal secretary Sanjeev Palande and personal assistant Kundan Shinde in connection with an alleged hafta case In its remand copy of the two officials of Deshmukh the ED said that over Rs 4 crore collected from bar owners between December 2020 and February 2021 was routed to Deshmukhs charitable trust in Nagpur through four shell companies in DelhiDeshmukh 72 is facing an ED investigation on the basis of the Central Bureau of Investigation CBI case as the fallout of the allegations made in a letter penned by former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh who is now the CommandantGeneral of Home GuardsSingh had alleged in his letter to chief minister Uddhav Thackeray in March that Deshmukh had fixed a collection target of Rs 100 crore per month for sacked assistant police inspector Sachin Vaze who was the then head of the Crime Intelligence Unit of the elite Crime BranchCID of the Mumbai Police Thereafter Singh had approached the Supreme Court which directed him to go to Bombay High Court where the CBI was asked to conduct a preliminary enquiryMeanwhile Vaze was arrested by the National Investigation Agency NIA for the twin cases of planting of an SUV Scorpio with 20 gelatin sticks and a threat note near Antilia the home of Reliance Industries Ltd Chairman Mukesh Ambani followed by the murder of Thanebased owner of the SUV Mansukh HiranThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever