08-Mar-2024 11:17 PM
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Mumbai, Mar 8 (Reporter) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday attached properties worth over Rs 50 crores belonging to Nationalist Congress Party (SP) MLA Rohit R. Pawar, officials said here.
Rohit Pawar is the grand nephew of NCP (SP) President Sharad Pawar
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The attached properties include 161.30 acres of land, plus a sugar plant, machinery and buildings at Kannad, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, owned by the Baramati Agro Ltd, headed by Rohit Pawar.
The attachments come in an alleged money-laundering case pertaining to the illegal sale of sugar factories by the Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank to Baramati Agro Ltd., of which Rohit R. Pawar is the CEO.
The assets have been provisionally attached under a Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) case which the ED has been probing against him.
In the past, the ED provisionally attached some other assets worth more than Rs 120 crore in the case originally filed by the Mumbai Police Economic Offences Wing in 2019...////...