The Enforcement Directorate, on Wednesday, June 21, raided 15 premises in Mumbai and one out of doorways the metropolis as a portion of its money laundering probe into the Covid jumbo centre scam. They searched the premises of Sujit Patkar and IAS officer Sanjeev Jaiswal. Patkar is a end aide to Shiv Sena chief Sanjay Raut and Jaiswal, then extra municipal commissioner, is a end aide to Aaditya Thackeray. ED has furthermore raided the premises of contractors and intermediaries allowing for the alleged scam.
The raided locations encompass Lifeline Hospital Management Services in Sasmira Marg, Worli, and Patkar’s location in Santacruz (East), the Indian Categorical reported. Here is the entirety you wish to take hang of about Mumbai’s Covid jumbo centre scam.
About Mumbai’s Covid Jumbo Centre Rip-off
The Enforcement Directorate opened the investigation into the alleged Covid jumbo centre scam in conserving with the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). In August 2022, Bharatiya Janata Fetch collectively (BJP) chief, Kirit Somaiya, registered an FIR concerning the same at the Azad Maidan police blueprint against four Lifeline Hospital Management Services partners, at the side of Sujit Patkar. The assorted four names in the FIR were Dr Hemant Ramsharan Gupta, Sanjay Madanlal Shah, and Raju Nandkumar Salunkhe. Later, the native police transferred the case to the Mumbai Police Economic Offences Soar (EOW).
In January 2023, EOW asked the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) senior officials for important aspects about contracts and transfers to Lifeline Hospital Management Services. For the length of the pandemic, the civic body reduced in size the company to space up Covid jumbo centres in Mumbai. ED furthermore interrogated the civic officials concerning the topic.
BJP chief Kirti Somaiya claimed the Covid jumbo centre scam is a ₹100-crore scam. Nevertheless, the Mumbai Police EOW pegged it at ₹38 crore.
ED has searched the Chembur location of Suraj Chouhan, one more end aide of Aaditya Thackeray.
In the FIR, Somaiya accused the firm of getting the contract by forging documents, at the side of the partnership deed. He furthermore accused the firm of hiding data about being barred by the Pune Metropolitan Self-discipline Construction Authority from giving medical companies and products. Moreover, the BJP chief alleged that the authorities disbursed the contracts at exorbitant rates to contractors linked to Shiv Sena leaders but had prior abilities in the healthcare service sector.
Whereas Mumbai Police’s EOW is investigating the criminal facet of the alleged Covid jumbo centre scam, ED is tracking the money trails of the proceeds. Up to now, the EOW has arrested two of us, Raju Nandakumar Salunke and Bala Ramchandra Kadam. They maintain got furthermore puzzled many BMC officials, at the side of IS Chahal.
(With inputs from agencies)
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