ED Attaches Eknath Khadse’s Assets Worth Rs 5.73 Crore

ED attaches Eknath Khadse’s assets worth Rs 5.73 crore: Money Laundering Case.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached assets worth Rs 5.73 crore of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Eknath Khadse in a money laundering case.

Apart from this, a bank account has also been sealed, in which Rs 86 lakh is deposited.

Eknath Khadse has been a senior BJP leader before, but a few months back he left the BJP and joined the Nationalist Congress Party.

These cases were registered against him while he was a minister in the BJP government.

The Anti-Corruption Bureau had registered an FIR in 2017 against Khadse, his wife Mandakini, and son-in-law Girish Chaudhary.

It was alleged that Khadse bought a plot of MIDC in Bhosari, Pune for Rs 3.75 crore. Whereas its actual price was 31 crores.

ED attaches Eknath Khadse’s assets: The Enforcement Directorate alleges that the plot was bought in the name of Girish Chaudhary and money was transferred through five fake companies.

The ED has alleged that Khadse while being the Revenue Minister in the state, manipulated the purchase of this plot by using his influence. Due to which the exchequer suffered a loss of Rs 61.25 crore.

The ED had registered an Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) against Khadse, his wife, his son-in-law, and another person Abbas Ukani in October this year.

Abbas Ukani was the real owner of this plot.

Earlier, Girish Chaudhary, son-in-law of Nationalist Congress Party leader Eknath Khadse, was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate.

He has been arrested under sections of the PMLA Act in a land scam case in Pune. This case dates back to the time when Khadse was the revenue minister in the BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis government.

According to ED officials, Girish Chaudhary was called for questioning. He was arrested after about 13 hours of interrogation that lasted till late in the evening.

Eknath Khadse has been a senior OBC leader of BJP. He is considered close to the late Gopinath Munde. In the Fadnavis government too, he has been the revenue minister for nearly two years.

At the same time, he was accused of irregularities in the purchase of a plot of Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) located in the Bhosari area of ​​Pune.

In this case, a person named Hemant Gawande had accused Khadse of looting the government treasury.

In 2017, the Maharashtra Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) had registered a case against Khadse, along with his wife Mandakini, son-in-law Girish Choudhary and landowner Abbas Akani.