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Breaking: ED Reaches Sanjay Raut’s Residence

The Uddhav Thackeray loyalist had denied any wrongdoing and alleged that he was being targeted due to political vendetta. Mr. Sanjay Raut was asked to depose at the federal agency’s regional office in Mumbai.

Officials from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted searches at Shiv Sena national spokesperson Sanjay Raut’s residence for his alleged links with the Patra Chawl land scam case on Sunday, according to news agency ANI.

The Sena leader was last summoned for questioning on Wednesday (July 20) by the probe agency over his alleged connection in the money laundering case linked to alleged irregularities in the re-development of a Mumbai ‘chawl’ and related transactions involving his wife and ‘associates’, officials said Tuesday.

The Uddhav Thackeray loyalist had denied any wrongdoing and alleged that he was being targeted due to political vendetta. Mr. Sanjay Raut was asked to depose at the federal agency’s regional office in Mumbai.

“I gave full cooperation and answered all their questions. I will appear again if they call me,” Sanjay Raut had told in an interaction with the media while exiting. He said he was “fearless and undaunted” as he has “not done anything wrong in life”.

Mr Raut had failed to appear before the agency twice on July 20 and 27.

 

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