Mumbai: Former Minister of State House Anil Deshmukh, facing money laundering probe, failing to appear in front of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday.
Ed had issued a five summons asking for it to appear, but her artificance Inderpal Singh visited the agency office and submitted a letter that said Deshmukh offered to record electronic statements (video conferencing).
Previously, Ed had rejected Deshmukh’s similar request and asked him to appear directly to be questioned.
Ed can immediately move the court asking to issue an undersaled warrant or an arrest warrant against Deshmukh and his son Hrishikesh for avoiding a call, said a source ed.
Dishmukh’s written answer to be educated on Wednesday, “Please note that in accordance with the leave and freedom provided by the Supreme Court, I took another path for a legitimate solution for the protection of my freedom and other assistance related to violations of the procedure violations set by law .
“Further adding that the road will again be taken in one or two days.
It is believed that Deshmukh, along with his son, can approach the court here for anticipatory guarantees in money laundering.
On Monday, SC refused to provide protection while Dishmukh from the arrest in the case of money laundering and said he could use the drug under the CRPC and approach the forum that was suitable for assistance.
Ed was investigating money laundering cases against Deshmukh based on the CBI corruption FIR against it where the former Police Commissioner Mumbai Param Singh accused that Deshmukh had asked Waze and two other officers to collect Hospital 100 crore from the bar owner every month.
Ed had set a footsteps of RS 4.7 Crore Hafta who was now dismissed by police assistant Inspector Sachin Waze has been collected from the bar owner in Mumbai and was handed over to the personal staff of Deshmukh Kundan Shinde.
After that, Hrishikesh approached the Hawala operator based in Delhi who lined the cash to Shell companies and from that number, he transferred Rs 4.18 Crore into Deshmukh’s education trust in Nagpur as a donation, Ed said.
Ed had been looking for Deshmukh and Hrishikesh for the past few days in this case and has raided several locations at different times on certain inputs, but in vain.
– V V Singh