Overview

• The Enforcement Directorate carried out searches at over 15 premises in Mumbai and Kochi, targeting Dino Morea’s Bandra residence, BMC officials, contractors and the Kochi-based supplier Matprop Technical Services.
• Dino Morea, who has been questioned twice by the Economic Offences Wing, has been summoned by the ED to appear next week for questioning under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
• Officials are following financial transactions between alleged middlemen Ketan Kadam and Jayesh Joshi, tracing transfers to shell companies and to accounts linked with Morea’s brother.
• The original EOW FIR filed in May accused 13 individuals of manipulating tenders for dredging machinery and submitting fraudulent sludge-transport bills that cost the BMC over ₹65 crore between 2017 and 2023.
• Primary accused Kadam and Joshi, arrested last month with Joshi recently granted bail, face ongoing ED scrutiny as investigators examine assets acquired from 2018 to 2022 and lavish foreign trips arranged for BMC officials.