Mumbai: The enforcement Directorate has earlier this week submitted a prosecution complaint against Rohit Pawar, grandnephew of Sharad Pawar and MLA from the Karjat-Jamkhed constituency. The money laundering case against Pawar is filed in connection with the role of his firm in Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank scam.
The complaint against Pawar is submitted by ED at the time when the economic offence wing, which had probed the predicate offence, wants the case to be closed. EOW’s plea is being objected to by ED as well as the complainants. The court is yet to hear on the closure report, pending which the central agency has now submitted a prosecution complaint against Pawar. ED’s complaint is yet to come up before the court for cognizance.
ED had claimed that loans were given by the management of MSCB to the sugar mills/companies controlled by relatives of the directors of the bank without assessing loan repayment capacity of the sugar mills/companies. The agency also alleged that the bank did not follow the process stated under the SARFAESI Act, 2002 while auctioning defaulting Sugar Sahkari Kharkhana (SSK). It was claimed that SSK were sold at below reserve price. Pawar’s firm was also alleged to have been involved in the alleged scam. The agency has also attached his assets of his firm Baramati Agro ltd which owned Kannad Sagar unit.
