Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Jan 25: Saket Gokhale, TMC leader was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday in connection with a money laundering investigation.
Saket Gokhale is accused of misusing cash of about Rs. 1.07 crore that was raised through crowd financing.
He was taken into custody under criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in Ahemdabad where he is lodged in judicial custody in a Gujarat Police case. According to them, the agency would present him to a municipal court there to request his recall.
On December 29, the Gujarat Police detained Gokhale in Delhi as part of an investigation involving the suspected misuse of funds he had raised through crowdfunding. Gokhale was arrested by the Ahmedabad Cyber Crime Branch and is facing charges under sections 420 (cheating), 406 (criminal breach of trust) and 467 (faking) of the IPC. He was taken into custody under criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in Ahmedabad, where he is lodged in judicial custody in the Gujarat Police case.
Notably, according to police, a complaint was filed subsequently by an Ahmedabad resident who claimed to have donated Rs 500 to Gokhale through online mode and Gokhale allegedly collected over Rs 70 lahks from more than 1,700 persons through the ‘our democracy’ platform and used that money for personal use.
Apart from this, Saket Gokhale was detained in December 2022 for his tweet allegedly spreading false information on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Morbi in Gujarat after a bridge collapsed. He was later given bail.
