The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday attached Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut’s property in connection with its probe into the Rs 1034-crore floor space index (FSI) fraud at Patra Chawl in Goregaon.

Attached assets include eight land parcels worth Rs 9 crore in Alibaug and a flat worth Rs 2 crore in Mumbai’s Dadar suburb, and the ED issued a provisional attachment under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) to freeze the land parcels (plots) and flat, the agency officials told the PTI.

Soon after news broke that his properties have been attached by the agency, he took to Twitter to vent his ire and wrote, Asatyamev Jayate (Untruth wins).

This comes after ED filed a prosecution complaint (chargesheet) against Pravin on April 1.

Earlier on February 2, 2022, the probe agency had arrested businessman Pravin Raut, a close associate of Sanjay Raut, in connection with the case.

The Centre’s probe agency had already investigated Sanjay Raut’s wife Varsha Raut last year in connection with another PMLA case linked to the Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative (PMC) Bank fraud case and for her links with Pravin Raut’s wife Madhuri.

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The ED is also probing Pravin for illegally selling the floor space index (FSI) of a plot in suburban Mumbai by Guruashish Construction Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary of Housing Development and Infrastructure Ltd (HDIL). The ED has alleged that the company fraudulently sold FSI worth Rs 1,034 crore without building the mandatory tenements for people living in the Chawl.

A few years ago, the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) had given the contract to Guruashish Construction to redevelop Patra Chawl in suburban Mumbai’s Goregaon West. Pravin had negotiated the deal between MHADA and HDIL, the agency said.

HDIL has been investigated multiple times by the ED in connection with the Rs 4,300 crore fraud at Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative (PMC) Bank.

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