Overview

• The Enforcement Directorate carried out fresh raids at eight Mumbai contractor locations and froze roughly Rs 6 crore in bank and demat accounts linked to five contractors and a BMC engineer.
• Mumbai Police’s Economic Offences Wing submitted a detailed 7,000-page chargesheet naming middlemen Ketan Kadam and Jay Joshi alongside senior BMC engineers and private contractors.
• Probes found that nine forged memoranda of understanding and falsified weighbridge receipts were used to claim payments for silt transportation and dumping that never took place.
• The alleged scam spans desilting contracts awarded between 2013 and 2023, with investigators attributing over Rs 65.54 crore in wrongful losses to collusion and document forgery.
• Both the EOW and ED have questioned actor Dino Morea and his brother about their links to key accused, although neither has been formally charged.