ED working to bring down MVA govt: Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut

The Enforcement Directorate was pressuring individuals to offer statements in opposition to him, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut has alleged in a letter to Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu. ED was unlawfully restraining and threatening individuals with arrest or confiscation of property below PMLA in the event that they did not give statements in opposition to him, Raut alleged in a 4-page letter on Tuesday.

ED was probing many years’ outdated transactions below PMLA, he mentioned. “ED and different businesses personnel tasked with defending income and safe proceeds of crime are diminished to puppets of their political masters. Some ED and different businesses personnel confessed to the very individuals they summoned that they have been requested by bosses to repair me,” Raut alleged. The ED raids on him adopted his refusal to be a part of a plot to deliver down the Maha Vikas Aghadi authorities, he alleged. Two senior leaders and two senior ministers of the MVA authorities, moreover him, may very well be despatched to jail below PMLA to deliver down the MVA govt and guarantee a midterm ballot within the state, he mentioned.

Opposition chief Devendra Fadnavis, campaigning in Goa, rubbished Raut’s allegations.