Dismissed Assistant Police Inspector Sachin Vaze told the one-man Chandiwal Commission that he had met former state home minister Anil Deshmukh several times between December 2020 to March 2021.
"I met Anil Deshmukh several times between December to March, 2021. Meetings took place at Deshmukh's residence, office and Sahyadri guest house. All meetings were officials," Sachin Waze told Chandiwal commission.
The money laundering case against Deshmukh and others was made out after the CBI booked him in a corruption case related to allegations of Rs 100 crore bribery made by former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh.
Deshmukh (71), arrested earlier this month by the ED for his alleged role in the case, is currently in jail under judicial custody.
Waze is also an accused in a case related to recovery of an explosives-laden SUV from near industrialist Mukesh Ambani's house in south Mumbai in February this year and subsequent murder of Thane businessman Mansukh Hiran, the owner of the vehicle.
The former cop was arrested by the National Investigation Agency in March and is currently in judicial custody in the explosives-murder case.
(With agency inputs)