Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate has issued fresh summons to former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh and his son in a money laundering case against them, asking them to appear before the probe agency on Monday. Meanwhile, Deshmukh has filed an application in the Supreme Court seeking a stay on the punitive action in the money laundering case. Deshmukh has so far deferred summons to appear before the ED twice.
This is the third notice issued to Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Deshmukh to appear before the investigating officer of the case, ED officials said on Saturday. Deshmukh has been asked to record his statement on Monday at the central agency’s office in south Mumbai. His son Hrishikesh Deshmukh has also been summoned .
The agency had alleged in a court document that Rishikesh used to oversee the hawala transactions. Deshmukh (72) has been issued two summons earlier also, but he did not appear citing the threat of corona infection and urged him to record his statement before the ED through video conference.
