Enforcement Directorate (ED) has booked former Union Minister Sharad Pawar and former Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar. Money laundering allegations are in connection with Maharashtra State Co-Operative Bank. The volume of the alleged scam is Rs 25 thousand crore. Those booked along with Sharad Pawar and Ajit Pawar include officials and chairmen of Maharashtra State Co-operative Bank.
ED officials told PTI that an Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR), equivalent to a police FIR, was registered by the central agency under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
The case is based on a Mumbai Police FIR which had named former chairmen of the bank, ex-deputy chief minister of Maharashtra Ajit Pawar and 70 former functionaries of the cooperative bank.
The registration of the case comes at a time when assembly polls are due in the state next month.
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