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ED Questions Ex-Vasai-Virar Commissioner, Wife in Money Laundering Probe

They will return Tuesday after raids yielded Rs 1.33 crore, seized documents linking shell firms to a decades-long laundering network.

All the 41 illegal buildings were demolished in February this year, leaving around 2,500 families homeless
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Overview

  • On August 4, the ED grilled former VVMC commissioner Anil Pawar and his wife for over eight hours under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
  • Coordinated July 29 raids at 12 locations, including the Nashik home of Pawar’s nephew, recovered Rs 1.33 crore in unaccounted cash and incriminating digital evidence.
  • ED officials allege Pawar accepted bribes of Rs 20–25 per square foot to approve 41 unauthorized buildings on land reserved for sewage treatment.
  • Investigators are probing a web of shell companies tied to Pawar’s relatives that are suspected of laundering proceeds through real estate ventures.
  • The Pawars have been summoned again on August 5 as the ED intensifies its multi-stage probe that has seized over Rs 45 crore in assets since May.