Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut will be produced in a special court as his three-day Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody ends on Thursday. On Monday, the court remanded Raut in ED’s custody after the agency said he and his family were found to have received ₹1.06 crore of “tainted money” from his “front man” Pravin Raut, who was arrested in the case earlier.
ED arrested Sanjay Raut late on Sunday night in connection with the money laundering case registered in connection with the Patra Chawl redevelopment project. On Monday, ED’s counsel, Hiten Venegaonkar, told the court that Raut and his family were direct beneficiaries of ₹1.06 crore of the ₹112 crore received by Pravin Raut from real estate company Housing Development and Infrastructure Limited (HDIL).
Of this, ₹13.94 lakh was shown to have been received by Varsha Raut, Sanjay Raut’s wife, as returns on her investment of ₹5,625 in Avani Infrastructure, a firm floated in the name of Pravin Raut’s wife, Madhuri.
