Mumbai, Jan 24 (Reporter) Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLA Rohit Pawar, the grandnephew of party supremo Sharad Pawar, on Wednesday appeared before the Enforcement Directorate officials in connection. with the alleged Maharashtra State Cooperative (MSC) Bank money laundering case. Pawar appeared in the ED office at Ballred Pier in south Mumbai in the afternoon along with a battery of lawyers in response to the summon issued by ED last week directing him to remain present in the ED office today. The ED recently conducted searches at premises associated with Baramati Agro, a company owned by Rohit Pawar. The ED has claimed it found several irregularities in the sale of Kannada Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana (SSK). The money laundering investigation into Pawar's firm, Baramati Agro, is related to charges of "diversion" of cash and the deposit of earnest payments by a company that bid to purchase an ailing Maharashtra-based cooperative sugar factory SSK. The factory was taken over by Baramati Agro at Rs 50 crores, which is allegedly an undervalued price and suspected to be the result of a "manipulated" auction under the Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank. Meanwhile, former Mumbai Mayor and Shiv Sen (UBT) leader Kishori Padnekar has been directed to appear in the ED office on Thursday in connection with an alleged scam during the COVID-19 pandemic...////...