The Enforcement Directorate (ED), which is probing the alleged Rs 100 crore extortion case against ragged Residence Minister of Maharashtra Anil Deshmukh, on Thursday recorded the commentary of a top-stage officer posted in Pune.
The officer, is called Rahul Shrirame, is posted as DCP Internet page visitors in Pune. He changed into summoned by the ED to document his commentary in connection with the switch posting field being probed by the company. Sources said Shrirame looked sooner than ED officials and recorded his commentary.
Sources from the company also said that some more DCP-stage officers could presumably well well very effectively be summoned in the arrival days in connection with the switch postings linked to the probe by the company in the case registered against Deshmukh.
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The ED has also summoned IPS officer G Shreedhar on December 17. Shreedhar is at the moment posted as Superintendent of Police in Maharashtra’s Akola. Sources confirmed that ED officials had also summoned Shreedhar in connection with the same case.
On December 7, ragged negate chief secretary Sitaram Kunte, who’s now the major chief consultant to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, looked sooner than the company at the Mumbai position of business. Kunte looked sooner than ED officials after a 2d summons changed into despatched to him asking him to appear. He retired from carrier as chief secretary on November 30 and changed into appointed as major chief consultant to the chief minister the same day.
Earlier, the ED had recorded statements of negate transport minister Anil Parab in the same case, officials like Deputy RTO Bajrang Kharmate and Deputy Secretary Kailash Gaikwad had been also wondered and their statements had been recorded in the same matter earlier.
Kunte, after leaving the ED position of business, said that he changed into called by the ED in connection with the Anil Deshmukh case for some files and he had provided the same.
The ED will seemingly be taking a gaze into the switch posting linked to the bribery field in the case and several other persons had been wondered linked to the same field by company officials.
Brushed apart Assistant Inspector Sachin Vaze, in his commentary to the ED, said that Rs 20 crore every changed into obtained by Deshmukh and Parab from 10 DCP-stage officers. This cash, in step with Vaze, changed into paid by the DCPs to reverse their switch orders issued by the then Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh, whose commentary changed into also recorded by the ED on December 3, sooner than Kunte looked sooner than the company.
Deshmukh changed into arrested by the ED in the case on November 2, whereas his inside of most secretary Sanjeev Palande and inside of most assistant Kundan Shinde had been arrested in June.
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