New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has attached Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut's properties in connection to Rs 1,034 crore 'Patra Chawl' land scam case on Tuesday.
According to a PTI report, the agency has attached eight land parcels in Alibaug and a flat in Mumbai's Dadar suburb linked to Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut and his family under the anti-money laundering law.
The ED issued a provisional attachment under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) to freeze the land parcels (plots) and flat.
The properties have been attached to investigate a money laundering case linked to a Rs 1,034 crore worth land 'scam' related to the re-development of 'Patra chawl' in Mumbai.
Soon after ED's action, Raut spoke to the media condemning the act and said that he is not scared of any investigation and that truth will prevail.
I'm not one to get scared, seize my property, shoot me, or send me to jail, Sanjay Raut is Balasaheb Thackeray's follower & a Shiv Sainik, he'll fight & expose everyone. I'm not one to stay quiet, let them dance. The truth will prevail," said the Shiv Sena leader.
In February, the ED had arrested Maharashtra-based businessman Pravin Raut, a former director of a company called Guru Ashish Construction Pvt Ltd in the same money-laundering probe, and a chargesheet was also filed in the case.
The case against him pertains to alleged irregularities in the sale of FSI (floor space index) of a plot by a firm, linked to him, which is a subsidiary company of Housing Development Infrastructure Ltd.
The HDIL is under investigation by the ED and few other agencies in connection with an alleged fraud of about Rs 4,300 crore at the Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative (PMC) Bank.
The agency had also questioned Sanjay Raut's wife Varsha Raut last year in connection with another money laundering case linked to the PMC Bank fraud case and for her purported links with Pravin Raut's wife Madhuri.