ED issues lookout notice against Maharashtra ex-minister Deshmukh
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, September 6
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued a lookout notice against former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh.
Skipped five summons
- Anil Deshmukh has skipped at least five summons issued by the ED in connection with a money laundering case
- The agency is probing financial transactions of Deshmukh and his family
- A lookout circular is typically issued to prevent a person from leaving the country
A lookout circular is typically issued to prevent a person from leaving the country. Such a circular remains valid up to a year or till the requesting law agency cancels or renews it.
Deshmukh has skipped at least five summons issued by the agency in connection with a money laundering investigation against him.
The ED is probing the financial transactions of Deshmukh and his family. According to a prosecution complaint (chargesheet) filed by the agency, Deshmukh, while being the state Home Minister, “received illegal gratification worth around Rs 4.7 crore in cash from various orchestra bar owners” through now dismissed Mumbai Police Assistant Inspector Sachin Waze, who has been arrested in the Antilia scare case.
According to the ED, Deshmukh’s family “laundered the tainted sum of Rs 4.18 crore and projected it as untainted by showing the same received by a trust, namely Shri Sai Shikshan Sanstha”.
Deshmukh had moved the Supreme Court against the ED probe. The apex court, however, did not grant him relief against the ED action.
In his reply to ED summons, Deshmukh has alleged that the probe against him is unfair. He has also asked the agency to record his statements in the case through video conferencing.
