Money laundering probe: NCP MLA Rohit Pawar appears before ED

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MUMBAI:

NCP MLA Rohit Pawar

, the

grand nephew

of party supremo Sharad Pawar, appeared before the

Enforcement Directorate

(ED) on Thursday in connection with a

money laundering probe

into the alleged

Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank scam

, an official said. This is the second time that Rohit Pawar appeared before the ED in the last 10 days.
The 38-year-old MLA from Karjat-Jamkhed was earlier questioned by the agency on January 24.

On Thursday, he reached the ED's office situated at Ballard Estate in South Mumbai at 1.05 pm.
His family members accompanied him till the agency's office.

Sharad Pawar's wife Pratibha Pawar was present at the NCP office located nearby, as the legislator appeared before the ED.
NCP chief Sharad Pawar and his daughter Supriya Sule are currently in New Delhi for Parliament session.
Hundreds of NCP workers, who had come from across the state, gathered at the NCP office here as well as near the ED's establishment and staged an agitation against the agency's summons to Rohit Pawar.

A large number of police personnel were deployed near the ED office and barricades were placed on roads leading to it.
The Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank money laundering case stems from an August 2019 FIR of the Mumbai Police's Economic Offences Wing.
The ED conducted searches on January 5 on the of Baramati Agro, a company owned by Rohit Pawar, and some linked entities on in Baramati, Pune, Aurangabad and some other locations.
The case was filed after the Bombay High Court issued an order to investigate the allegations of selling sugar factories in the Maharashtra cooperative sector through alleged fraudulent means and also that they were sold at throwaway prices.

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