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Mumbai, Aug 4: Varsha Raut, wife of arrested Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut, has been summoned by the Enforcement Directorate on money-laundering charges in Patra Chawl land scam case.
ED summons Sanjay Raut's wife Varsha Raut in the Patra Chawl land case money laundering case. Summons issued after transactions done on Varsha Raut's account came to light: ED pic.twitter.com/8cUyE7Bcao
— ANI (@ANI) August 4, 2022
Four months ago, the ED attached assets worth 11 crores belonging to Varsha Raut and two of Sanjay Raut’s accomplices. The ED accuses them of being involved in a Rs 1,000 crore scam involving the reconstruction of Patra Chawl in Mumbai’s Goregaon.
Varsha Raut owned a Dadar apartment as well as eight Alibaug plots that she shared with Swapna Patkar. Swapna Patkar, the wife of Sanjay Raut’s “close colleague” Sujit Patkar, has been called as a witness in the case. Sanjay Raut has denied any connection to the “rape and murder threat” that she purportedly received last month.
The ED claimed in court today that the Raut family earned “proceeds of crime” of more than 1 crore for enabling fraud in the Patra Chawl project.
Sanjay Raut, who denied the allegations, also claimed that he was being held “without ventilation,” but the ED countered that he was being held in a “airconditioned” room, which explains why there isn’t a window.
Also read : ED custody of Sanjay Raut extended till August 8
