Mumbai: Nawab Malik was taken to Enforcement Directorate this morning for questioning. He was being summoned by the ED in connection with a money laundering case linked to the Mumbai underworld, officials told news agency PTI.
This morning the central probe agency’s officials reached the NCP leader’s home. There they questioned him for an hour. Then he was taken to the ED’s office around 7:30 am and was questioned there since 8:30 am.
Earlier Malik had slammed the Centre amid attempting to topple the state government. He had also stated that the Nationalist Congress Party, Congress, and Shiv Sena will not only govern Maharashtra but also come in the Centre and MVA will become the ruling government by dislodging the BJP.
“It is their (of the BJP) illusion that we will get scared. No matter how much they try, the (state) government will complete five years. This government will run for 25 years. We will be in power in the state, and we will also attain power at the Centre,” Malik had claimed.
Following the 2019 assembly polls, the three parties had formed the Maha Vikas Aghadi government, after the Shiv Sena snapped ties with long-term ally BJP over the issue of sharing the chief ministerial post.
Malik’s comments came following the sensational claims made by Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut in a letter to Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu. In the letter, he is alleging that the Enforcement Directorate has been harassing him and his family after he refused to help in toppling the Maharashtra government. He said that the ED and other investigating agency officials “are now reduced to puppets of their political masters” and added that the officials have even admitted that they have been “asked by their ‘bosses’ to ‘fix’ me.”
Nawab Malik too has been repeatedly attacking central enforcement agencies, accusing them of harassing and intimidating opposition leaders at the behest of the BJP-led union government.
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