Mumbai:
Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has filed a fresh case against former Maharashtra
Deputy Chief Minister and 11 others, including his four family members, for
allegedly amassing Rs 203 crore disproportionate to known sources of his
income, a police officer said today.
The
FIR was filed by ACB yesterday, in which Bhujbal, his wife Meena, son Pankaj,
daughter-in-law Vishakha and nephew Sameer, have been named as accused, the
officer said.
Chartered
accountants Sunil Naik and Chandrashekar Sarda, hawala operator Suresh Jajodia,
directors of Bhujbal’s companies Pravinkumar Jain and Jagdishprasad Purohit,
financial advisor Sanjeev Jain, and chief managing director of Snehal
Cooperative Ltd Kapil Puri have also been named as other accused in the FIR, he
said. While investigating the alleged offences of cheating, forgery and
corruption against Chhagan Bhujbal in two cases — Central Library land scam and
Maharashtra Sadan scam — ACB further found “ill-gotten” wealth, after which the
fresh FIR was filed.
In
the FIR, the anti-graft agency said that the amassed assets were beyond the
known income sources. The official said ACB had carried out searches at
Chhagan Bhujbal’s houses and offices and recovered documents showing properties
at several places in the city, satellite cities of Mumbai as well as at Pune,
Lonavala and Nashik.
According
to the investigators, Bhujbal, along with Pankaj, Sameer and Naik, had
allegedly opened bogus companies for money laundering, police said. In
February this year, ACB had filed a charge sheet against Bhujbal and his kin in
the multi-crore rupee Maharashtra Sadan construction scam. Subsequently,
Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested the Chhagan Bhujbal, the senior NCP
leader, and Sameer in a money laundering case connected to the scam. Both of
them are currently lodged at the Arthur Road jail in Mumbai.
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