MUMBAI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh to record his statement in connection with the money-laundering case linked with former state home minister Anil Deshmukh. Singh has sought time stating that he is unwell and advised for surgery.
The ED will record the statement of dismissed assistant police inspector Sachin Waze in jail on Saturday.
After his removal from the post of Mumbai police commissioner in March, Singh wrote a letter to CM Uddhav Thackeray alleging that Deshmukh had asked Waze and two other officers to illegally collect Rs 100 crore from restaurant and bar owners in the city every month.
The ED had recorded Waze’s statement earlier too. Then Waze had claimed that he had collected Rs 4.7 crore between December 2020 and February 2021 and handed it over to Deshmukh’s personal assistant Kundan Shinde. The money was then allegedly routed with the help of Delhi-based hawala operators and transferred into Deshmukh’s trust in Nagpur as a donation.
Last month, the ED had arrested Shinde and Deshmukh’s private secretary Sanjeev Palade, also an additional collector rank government officer.
