The ED on Tuesday wondered senior NCP chief Prajakt Tanpure for six hours in reference to the Maharashtra Articulate Co-operative (MSC) Bank rip-off case.
ED officers wondered Maharashtra minister Prajakt Tanpure for six hours relating to the auction of Ram Ganesh Gadkari mill. (File command)
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday wondered senior NCP chief Prajakt Tanpure in reference to the Maharashtra Articulate Co-operative (MSC) Bank rip-off case.
Prajakt Tanpure, the Minister of Articulate for Urban Development within the Maharashtra authorities, became as soon as wondered for around six hours relating to the eradicate of a sugar mill at worthy cheaper tag than the value reserved for it.
The sugar mill under investigation is the Ram Ganesh Gadkari mill which became as soon as auctioned by Maharashtra Articulate Co-operative Bank (MSCB) after the owner had defaulted on loans taken from the monetary institution.
It is far alleged that the mill became as soon as auctioned to Prasad Sugar and Allied Agro products at a cheaper tag than the reserved tag. The corporate became as soon as controlled by the Tanpure household and when the auction had came about, Prasad Tanpure became as soon as a director at the MSCB.
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Earlier in October, ED officers had implemented search at the mill and additionally at the premises of some consultants known to Nagpur-primarily primarily based Congress chief Ashish Deshmukh.
While leaving the ED office later within the day, Tanpure talked about that he had near for questioning connected the MSCB rip-off case and he had offered solutions to the questions requested by ED officers, barring a couple of technical questions connected to figures and may maybe maybe maybe even be offering solutions for the same when called yet again. He staunchly denied any roughly misappropriation or irregularities within the auction of the sugar mill.
ED officers had earlier linked Jaradeshwar Sugar mill in Satara linked to Maharashtra’s Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar after multiple raids. Kinfolk of some senior Mumbai police officers linked to some various sugar mills purchased within the same formula are additionally under the scanner.
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