Senior NCP leader and former Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Chhagan Bhujbal will be produced in Mumbai sessions court today. Bhujbal was arrested late on Monday night after 10 hours of questioning in a money laundering case against him and others..
According to an ED official, the arrest of the former PWD minister was effected under the provisions of the Prevention of Money. The agency also recorded his statement in the case.
Bhujbal faces allegations of receiving kickbacks for the construction of the new Maharashtra Sadan in Delhi. He is charged with illegally giving over Rs 100 crore contract for the sadan, for which he received kickbacks.
The Maharashtra ACB had last month filed a chargesheet in the Mumbai Sessions Court against Chhagan Bhujbal and his family members in connection with the Maharashtra Sadan construction scam.
The ED had registered a PMLA case involving the Bhujbals and some of their associates and has already arrested the ex-minister’s nephew Samir last month in the case. The ED had also questioned Bhujbal’s son Pankaj in the same case last month.
The agency has filed two FIRs against the Bhujbals and others under the provisions of PMLA, based on Mumbai Police FIRs, to probe the Delhi-based Maharashtra Sadan construction scam and the Kalina land grabbing case.
