ED attaches property of Rohit Pawar in money laundering case

Mumbai The Enforcement Directorate (ED) attached properties worth Rs 50 crore of Nationalist Congress Party (SP) MLA Rohit Pawar. Rohit Pawar is the grandson of Sharad Pawar. ED said on Friday that 161.30 acres of land, sugar plant, machinery and building of Kannada Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana Limited (Kannada SSK) located in Kannada village of Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar has been attached under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
The ED has made this attachment in an alleged money laundering case related to illegal sale of sugar mills by Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank to Baramati Agro Limited. Rohit R. Pawar is the CEO of Baramati Agro Limited. The properties have been provisionally attached under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) case which the ED is investigating against Karjat-Jamkhed MLA Rohit Pawar.
The ED had provisionally attached some other assets worth over Rs 120 crore in the case originally filed by the Economic Offenses Wing of Mumbai Police in 2019. ED last month arrested Rohit R. Pawar was interrogated intensively for two full days and is likely to be summoned again to investigate the matter.