mushrif: ED summons NCP MLA Hasan Mushrif for questioning in money laundering case

The Enforcement Directorate has summoned senior NCP chief and MLA Hasan Mushrif for wondering in a money laundering investigation being performed in opposition to him and others, officers mentioned Saturday. The flesh presser has been requested to depose prior to the federal probe company in Mumbai subsequent week in order that his statements may also be recorded beneath the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), they mentioned.

The ED had performed searches at a couple of premises connected to him in January. Some contemporary searches had been performed over the previous few days in Kolhapur and a few different places.

The money laundering case is connected to a probe associated with alleged irregularities within the operations of a few sugar generators primarily based within the state which might be hooked up to Mushrif, together with the Sar Senapati Santaji Ghorpade Sugar Manufacturing facility Ltd to which his 3 sons are connected.

Mushrif (68) is a Nationalist Congress Birthday celebration (NCP) MLA from the Kagal seat in Kolhapur. He’s additionally the vice chairman of the birthday party headed by way of Sharad Pawar.

BJP chief Kirit Somiaya had in 2021 alleged that the previous rural construction minister (Mushrif) indulged in corrupt practices by way of conserving ‘benami’ entities via his members of the family and corporations. The NCP had then brushed aside those fees.