ED swoops on NCP ex-Minister Hasan Mushrif for alleged charges corruption & money laundering
On Wednesday the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raided the home and other locations linked to senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Hasan Mushrif, his family members, and some other persons in Kolhapur and Pune for alleged charges of corruption and money laundering.
The raids were carried out at 7 locations in the two cities. ED sleuths reached at Mushrif’s home in Kagal town of Kolhapur around 6 a.m., and other places connected with the NCP leader, amid tight security, confiscated certain documents and other evidence, and the raids continued for over 12 hours.
Earlier, former BJP MP Kirit Somaiya made various allegations of financial irregularities against Mushrif. Somaiya also accused the NCP leader and his associates of corruption and money laundering of hundreds of crores pertaining to deals through defunct companies, grabbing a sugar mill, amassing huge properties, etc.
Somaiya said: “The countdown has begun for Mushrif Why does Hasan-Miya remember his religion now? After Miya Mushrif, there are many other leaders who will have to face the consequences“. His reference was to Mumbai Congress ex-Minister Aslam Shaikh.
The former BJP leader cited several instances and reeled off figures of alleged financial deals involving Mushrif, his associates, officials, and others through the shell or bogus companies, and how the funds were reportedly routed for other illegal deals worth hundreds of crores of rupees.
Among other things, Somaiya has charged Mushrif with grabbing control of the Appasaheb Nalawade Gadhinglaj Cooperative Sugar Mill Ltd, huge payoffs, and money-laundering of massive amounts through murky transactions which benefited him, his family, or associates.
As the raids started, angry NCP activists gathered outside Mushrif’s home and staged vociferous protests, raised slogans against the BJP, the government, and the probe agencies, and burnt effigies of Somaiya.
Mushrif is the fifth MVA leader to be targeted by the probe agencies after Anil Deshmukh and Nawab Malik (NCP), Shiv Sena (UBT)’s MP Sanjay Raut, and ex-Minister Anil Parab, in the past couple of years.
Mushrif, a 5-term MLA from Kagal, is a close confidante of NCP President Sharad Pawar, and served as a minister for several years in the Democratic Front and MVA governments.
[With Inputs from IANS]
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