ED conducts raids on Maharashtra Transport Minister Anil Parab across 7 locations
Mumbai, May 26: The ED on Thursday raided multiple locations in Maharashtra as part of a money laundering probe against state transport minister Anil Parab and others linked to alleged irregularities in a land deal in coastal Dapoli area of Ratnagiri district and other charges, officials said.
Locations in Dapoli, Mumbai and Pune are being searched after the federal agency filed a fresh case under the criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
Parab
(57),
is
a
three-time
Shiv
Sena
legislator
in
the
Maharashtra
legislative
council
and
is
the
state
transport
minister.
The
Enforcement
Directorate
(ED)
action
pertains
to
the
allegations
of
purchase
of
a
parcel
of
land
at
Dapoli
by
Parab
in
2017
for
a
consideration
of
Rs
1
crore
but
it
was
registered
in
2019.
Some
other
charges
are
also
being
probed
by
the
agency.
It is alleged that the land was subsequently sold to a Mumbai-based cable operator Sadanand Kadam in 2020 for a consideration of Rs 1.10 crore. In between, a resort was built on the same land from 2017 to 2020.
An Income Tax Department investigation earlier had alleged that the construction of the resort started in 2017 and over Rs 6 crore was spent in cash on construction of the resort.
Parab has been questioned by the ED in the past in an another money laundering case linked to former minister Anil Deshmukh.