Maharashtra: ED raids places linked to NCP leader Hasan Mushrif in a money laundering case
He is the fifth big leader of the MVA to be targeted by central agencies. The others are Anil Deshmukh (NCP), Nawab Malik (NCP), Sanjay Raut (Shiv Sena) and Anil Parab (Shiv Sena).The NCP and its MVA allies -- Shiv Sena (UBT) and Congress -- have reacted sharply to the development.
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Mumbai, January 11: In a major blow to the Sharad Pawar-led - National Congress Party, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) is searching Maharashtra minister Hasan Mushrif's residence in connection with the money laundering probe revolving around sugar mills.
Mushrif had been on the radar of central agencies for quite some time. Apart from him, ED is also searching at the Pune office of Chandrakant Gaikwad, who is a close aide of NCP leader Hasan Mushrif.
Mushrif is a close aide of NCP supremo Sharad Pawar and Leader of the Opposition Ajit Pawar. A five-time MLA from Kagal, he had been a minister in the erstwhile Democratic Front government and the previous Maha Vikas Aghadi government.
ED raids are underway at multiple locations linked to former Maharashtra Minister and senior NCP leader Hasan Mushrif in connection with a case related to sugar mill corruption, says the agency pic.twitter.com/joWTvfyD59
— ANI (@ANI) January 11, 2023
He is the fifth big leader of the MVA to be targeted by central agencies. The others are Anil Deshmukh (NCP), Nawab Malik (NCP), Sanjay Raut (Shiv Sena) and Anil Parab (Shiv Sena).
The NCP and its MVA allies -- Shiv Sena (UBT) and Congress -- have reacted sharply to the development. "It is politically motivated. Mushrif is beinag targeted the way earlier Deshmukh, Malik and Raut had been targeted,” NCP chief spokesperson Mahesh Tapase said.Protests erupted in several places in Kagal and other parts of Kolhapur in the wake of the ED action.