Mumbai: Central Investigation Bureau (CBI) searched the DCP Premis Raju Bhujbal, ACP Sanjay Patil, and 10 others on Tuesday in a corruption case, they were investigating against the former Minister of Internal Affairs Anil Deshmukh.
Deshmukh allegedly asked the police inspector’s assistant (now dismissed) Sachin sued illegally collecting Rs 100 Crore from the bar owner in Mumbai for him every month.
Waze then headed for Ciu Mumbai police branch.
Deshmukh allegedly repeated demand with Bhujbal and Patil after calling them at his official residence, Dnyaneshwari, in South Mumbai.
The source stated that at the beginning of Tuesday, the CBI had raided Bhujbal’s house in Mumbai and Ahmednagar.
Patil residence in Mumbai and Pune.
Place the other Raided located in Pune, Thane, Solapur, Sangli, and other districts in Maharashtra.
The CBI collects documents and digital evidence during RAID for inspection.
The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) also conducted a money laundering investigation towards Deshmukh.
Ed Investigation has found more than RS 50 Crore suspicious transactions around two dozen companies related to Deshmukh.
Ed examined the records of these companies to track suspicious sources of money.
Former Police Commissioner Mumbai Param Bir Singh in his complaint to the minister’s chairman has accused that Deshmukh has demanded Rs 100 Crore every month from Waze, Bhujbal, and Patil.
Previously, Ed stated that Rs 4.7 Crore in bribes collected by aborting, then headed for the Ciu Police Mumbai branch, paid to Deshmukh.
Of the money, Rs 4.18 Crore was transferred to Nagpur’s education trust based in Deshmukh through a Shell company with the help of a Hawala operator based in Delhi and Virendra Jain showed it as a donation.
Ed had arrested the Private Secretary of Deshmukh (Additional Rank Government Officials) Sanjeev Palande and Personal Assistant Kundan Shinde to help Deshmukh and his son Hrishikesh in money laundering.
In his statement to Ed, Palande had “recognized” that a meeting was held on March 4 with police officers where the discussion of the restrictions on Covid-19 on the bar occurred.
Ed accused that Palande and Shinde have played an active role in money laundering.
Palande has coordinated with Waze, DCP Raju Bhujbal, and ACP Sanjay Patil to raise money from the owners ‘Orchestra Bar’ in Mumbai, and hand them to Shinde,