The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is likely to submit its second chargesheet in the Rs 870-crore money-laundering probe against senior NCP leader and former state PWD minister Chhagan Bhujbal and others. The agency has also served eviction notices to a few Bhujbal family members, asking them to vacate within two weeks some of their city-based premises that were attached last December.
The agency’s supplementary chargesheet is likely to be submitted in two weeks and will seek to establish the “roles of individuals and firms” in laundering proceeds from alleged acts of corruption, said an ED source. Among the assets that would have to be vacated are properties in two western suburbs and another in Navi Mumbai, said a source.
As part of its probe, the ED has so far attached assets worth Rs 433 crore allegedly held by members of the Bhujbal family who are under scanner.
The agency is probing the laundering of money worth up to Rs 870 crore that allegedly were proceeds of corruption when Bhujbal was the state public works department minister during 2007-11, according to the source. The agency suspects that several firms, including shell firms “having no record on their business activities or management”, were involved in the alleged laundering.
