The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has charged former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh with money laundering.
According to ED reports, the complaint was filed based on the Central Bureau of Investigation’s FIR (CBI).
Earlier in April, the CBI raided four of Deshmukh’s properties after filing an FIR against him in connection with allegations made by former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh.
An FIR was filed under section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act (public servant receiving gratification rather than lawful remuneration for an official act) and criminal conspiracy (IPC 120 B).
According to accounts, the CBI seized incriminating records and computer devices during the searches.
Deshmukh resigned from his position after the Bombay High Court ordered the CBI to launch an investigation into Param Bir Singh’s allegations.
Deshmukh filed a petition with the Bombay High Court on May 4 to have the CBI FIR against him dismissed.
The Court adjourned the petition and declined to grant Deshmukh any temporary immunity from CBI coercion.
In a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, Singh said that Deshmukh had engaged in “malpractices” and demanded that suspended Mumbai Police officer Sachin Waze be paid Rs 100 crores per month.
Waze was arrested in March as part of the National Investigation Agency’s (NIA) investigation into the recovery of an explosives-laden SUV near Mukesh Ambani’s house in Mumbai and the subsequent murder of Thane businessman Mansukh Hiren.
