Sharad, Ajit Pawar booked
Update: 2019-09-25 00:35 IST
Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate has booked NCP chief Sharad Pawar, his nephew and former deputy CM Ajit Pawar and others in a criminal case of money laundering linked to the alleged Rs 25000-crore scam in Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank, officials said.
They said an Enforcement Case Information Report, equivalent of a police FIR, has been registered by the central agency under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act against all the accused.
The case is based on a Mumbai Police FIR that had named the then directors of the bank, former deputy chief minister of the state Ajit Pawar and 70 former functionaries of the cooperative bank.