Shiv Sena's Sanjay Raut's daughters under ED scanner in Rs 1034 crore land scam case
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Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut’s daughters have come under the scanner of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) after the law enforcement agency carried out raids at their business partner Sujit Patkar’s residence pertaining to a land scam case of Rs 1034 crores.Sujit Patkar has been a partner with Sanjay Raut daughters Purvashi and Vidhita in their wine company Magpie DFS Pvt. Ltd since the last 16 years. Patkar's wife and Sanjay Raut's wife jointly bought land in Alibag. Pravin Raut, a former director of a company called Guru Ashish Construction Pvt Ltd, was arrested following his questioning at the ED office in Mumbai.Raut was produced before a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in Mumbai that sent him to ED custody for eight days till February 9, the agency said in a statement. "Pravin Raut along with Rakesh Kumar Wadhawan and Sarang Wadhawan, directors of Guru Ashish Constructions Pvt Ltd, in connivance with others illegally sold FSI (floor space index) to various builders for Rs 1,034 crore."Pravin Raut along with Rakesh Kumar Wadhawan and Sarang Wadhawan, directors of Guru Ashish Constructions Pvt Ltd, in connivance with others illegally sold FSI (floor space index) to various builders for Rs 1,034 crore."This was done without constructing the rehab flats and flats to be handed over to MHADA, which was the pre-requisite," it alleged. The ED alleged that Raut, in 2010, received Rs 95 crore in his bank account in the "guise of sale of equity and land deal though the company was not able to complete the project and had not generated any income". It had been said that Pravin Raut "paid an amount of Rs 1.6 crore to his wife Madhuri Pravin Raut from the proceeds of crime. Out of the said money, Madhuri Raut transferred Rs 55 lakh (Rs 50 lakh on December 23, 2010, and Rs 5 lakh on March 15, 2011) as an interest-free loan to Varsha Raut, who is the wife of Sanjay Raut".It took cognisance of a Mumbai Police economic offences wing FIR against them that charged them for causing "wrongful loss, prima facie to the tune of Rs 4,355 crore to PMC Bank, and corresponding gains to themselves."