Mumbai: a mystery woman who was seen on a CCTV camera with Sachin Waze left a five-star hotel in South Mumbai before the controversy over a broken car explosive case was a 36-year-old single mother who met the police (then suspended), “client”, in 2011 through a broker at Five star hotel when he works as a “escort”.
The woman said she could not remember clearly if Waze first introduced himself as “Sanjay or Sunil” from Pune.
He said after meeting regularly for 2-3 months, he revealed his identity.
The woman’s statement is part of the Chargesheet Nia.
The woman was seen entering the Oberoi hotel on February 18 and left the next morning.
He said he went to stay with Waze at the hotel on two occasions in February because he had given him Rs 40 Lakh and Rs 36 Lakh to sort out and count.
He said the RS 40 Lakh was first given to him by calling for when he called him to the 4th floor of the office of the Police Commissioner on 15 or February 16.
He took the money to Mira’s house with a local train.
Waze instructed it to calculate money, remove the old record and separate notes with the serial number “786”.
He said when he left the hotel on February 19, he gave him another bag containing the 36 lakh Rs which he returned on February 20 at the same hotel.
He said after Waze was restored in June 2020, he told him to stop working as an escort because he would now get a “decent income”.
He paid him Rs 50,000 for a monthly fee starting August 2020.
“We used to meet in hotels in South Mumbai,” he said.
The woman claimed her unemployed husband, rude forced her to be an escort in 2008, when her son was 2 months old, and he separated from him in 2013.
He said Waze told him that he found him a different, drink or drink drugs.
“After the meeting, he kept calling me and wanted to meet me again.
The next meeting was after 2-3 days, when he revealed his real name as Sachin and said he was a businessman,” he told Nia.
The woman also operated the bank locker used and removed RS 5 Lakh on March 18, a few days after Waze’s arrest.
He said he gave the money to his brother and asked him to use it to get a good lawyer and secured his guarantee if his name was cut.
He said he went to his hometown with his son on March 31 but returned the next day after his brother told Nia he was looking for it.
Nia also thought to find Rs 1.5 Crore in one of the company’s account, Maya Automation, where Waze has made it the owner in 2016.