Pune / ED seizes Eknath Khadse’s properties worth ₹5.73 Cr

Zoom News : Aug 27, 2021, 05:08 PM
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has connected properties worth ₹5.73 crores belonging to Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Eknath Khadse and his family as a part of the investigation into the alleged money laundering case relating to a chunk of land at Bhosari in Pune. The attached properties are withinside the shape of a bungalow, apartments and lands placed in Jalgaon and Lonavala. The flesh presser and his family are accused of defrauding the authorities exchequer of ₹61.25 crores.


The case, registered beneath neath the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, relates to the acquisition of a plot at Bhosari village in Haveli taluka on April 28, 2016, via way of means of Khadse’s family for ₹3.75 crores in opposition to the everyday marketplace fee of ₹31 crores.

Previously, Khadse turned into wondered via way of means of ED two times in January and July this year. ED arrested his son-in-regulation Girish Chaudhary in July in reference to the case.


Khadse’s spouse Mandakini and the Bhosari land’s proprietor Abbas Rasalbhai Ukani Bhosari have been additionally booked withinside the case via way of means of ED on August 28, 2019.


ED’s case is based on an FIR registered via way of means of Maharashtra Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in opposition to the Khadse own circle of relatives in 2017. The ACB later closed the case, however, ED endured its research into the alleged monetary irregularities withinside the land deal.

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