MUMBAI: The ACB has initiated an open inquiry against dismissed API Sachin Waze for allegedly amassing assets disproportionate to his known income.
Sources said the ACB on Wednesday initiated the inquiry after prima facie finding “some truth in the discreet inquiry”.
ACB officials will now investigate Waze’s movable and immovable assets as well as the sources of his wealth.
Sources said that the ACB started the inquiry after Mumbai police commissioner Hemant Nagrale granted sanction as Waze already stands dismissed from service; in such inquiries, permission is not needed from the competent authority.
Interestingly, the NIA, probing the planting of gelatine sticks near industrialist Mukesh Ambani’s residence at Carmichael Road and the subsequent murder of Scorpio owner Mansukh Hiran, had found Rs 1.5 crore in the bank account of a company floated by Waze during his suspension.
Waze who joined the force in 1990 as a PSI had just served in the department for 12 years before he was suspended in the alleged custodial death of 2002 Ghatkopar blast suspect Khwaja Yunus.
He was reinstated in the force after 16 years in June last year by the then police commissioner Param Bir Singh on grounds of manpower shortage because of Covid.
Waze served for nine months before getting entangled in the Hiran case and was arrested by the NIA.
Sources said that in his nine-month stint, he had amassed huge amounts from various accused and their relatives in the name of investigations.