The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday arrested Shiv Sena leader and Maharashtra minister Sanjay Raut in a money laundering case linked to the바카라 웹사이트alleged irregularities in the redevelopment of a Mumbai ‘chawl’.
Raut, 60, was arrested after over six hours of questioning at the ED라이브 바카라 zonal office in south Mumbai라이브 바카라 Ballard Estate.
The Rajya Sabha MP of the Sena, led by former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, was produced before a special PMLA court in Mumbai later in the day, where the ED sought his custody.바카라 웹사이트The session court sent Raut to ED custody till August 4 but the ED바카라 웹사이트had sought eight days' custody.
The ED probe pertains to alleged financial irregularities in the redevelopment of Patra ‘chawl’ and바카라 웹사이트related financial property transactions involving his wife and alleged associates.
What is the Patra Chawl scam?
Siddharth Nagar, popularly known as Patra Chawl is an area located in Goregaon, a northern Mumbai suburb. It housed nearly 672 homes spread over 47 acres of land.바카라 웹사이트
In 2008, the바카라 웹사이트Maharashtra Housing and Development Authority (MHDA) handed over the project of redeveloping the Chawl to바카라 웹사이트Guru Ashish Construction Private Limited (GACPL), a sister company of바카라 웹사이트HDIL (Housing Development and Infrastructure Ltd).
GACPL was supposed to build 672 flats for the people there and develop flats for MHDA and sell the remaining land to private developers for GACPL's own development works.바카라 웹사이트
However, it has been 14 years since then that the tenant of Patra Chawl awaits their flats.바카라 웹사이트
The company did not redevelop the Patra Chawl or any other flats that had to be handed over to MHADA and sold land parcels and the Floor Space Index (FSI) to other builders바카라 웹사이트for Rs 1,034 crores. It launched its own project called the Meadows and took a booking amount of Rs바카라 웹사이트Rs 138 crore from flat buyers.
The ED reportedly claims that바카라 웹사이트Pravin Raut, a close associate of Sanjay Raut, and other directors of Guru Ashish Constructions misled MHADA misled the Maharastra government and sold the FSI to other developers for Rs 901.79 crore and never completed the project they were handed.바카라 웹사이트
Pravin Raut, now arrested by ED, was one of the directors of the firm along with Sarang and Rakesh Wadhawan of HDIL, who were the prime accused in the PMC bank scam case.
The MHADA filed an FIR against GACPL in 2018. In February 2020, Pravin was arrested by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) and Sarang was arrested in September. However, Pravin was later released on bail.바카라 웹사이트
The ED has now arrested Sanjay Rait in connection to the scam.바카라 웹사이트
Probing the matter, the ED has now claimed that Pravin Raut received Rs 100 crore from HDIL through the illegal sale바카라 웹사이트and “diverted” it to various accounts of “his close associates, family member, his business entities”, including the family of Sanjay Raut.
As per the probe, GACPL was supposed to pay rent to the 672 tenants until the completion of the project. However, rent was paid only till 2014-15. Eventually, when complaints against the construction company started to come in, the Maharashtra government issued a termination notice to the developer on January 12, 2018.바카라 웹사이트
Meanwhile, the developers, who bought the land and FSI from GACPL, filed a suit in the Bombay High Court. The entire project got stalled while the tenants still await their houses.바카라 웹사이트
