10 bar owners in Mumbai paid Rs 4 crore to Anil Deshmukh for three months: ED

​By a staff reporter : A probe by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has established the money trail of Rs 4 crore, which was allegedly paid by about 10 bar owners in Mumbai to former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh for three months.

​The ED is conducting charges  four locations, including the residence of Deshmukh in Nagpur, in connection with the new findings in the money laundering case registered against the NCP leader. In Mumbai, the probe agency is also searching the premises of Deshmukh’s personal assistant Kundan Shinde and personal secretary Sanjeev Palande, based on the evidence gathered by ED on the alleged cash payments by the bar owners to Deshmukh. Later in the day, the ED brought both Shinde and Palande to its office at Ballard Estate in Mumbai for questioning in the Deshmukh case.