ED raids Sharad Pawar grandnephew's firm over 2012 purchase of sick sugar company. NCP alleges vendetta

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New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Friday conducted raids at at least six locations connected to Baramati Agro the agro cooperative run by Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawars grandnephew and Karjat-Jamkhed MLA Rohit Pawar...

The raids were conducted in connection with its money laundering investigation involving the Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank (MSCB) and targeted sites in Baramati, Pune, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (formerly Aurangabad), and Amravati, media reports said..

When the NCP split in June last year, the 38-year-old Rohit, the CEO of Baramati Agro, stayed with his granduncle instead of joining the ruling Eknath Shinde-Devendra Fadnavis government with uncle Ajit Pawar, who is now a Deputy Chief Minister...

The Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government led by Uddhav Thackeray andconsisting of the undivided Shiv Sena, the undivided NCP, and the Congress was in power then.. In November 2022 just over four months after the MVA government fell and Eknath Shinde and Devendra Fadnaviss Mahayuti government came to power the EOW once again sought permission to investigate companies linked to Rohit...

However, it did not name Ajit Pawar, whom it had previously accused of wrongdoing in the case.. The ED is looking into Baramati Agros purchase of a sick unit, Kannada SSK in Aurangabad, for Rs 50 crore via an auction initiated by the Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank...

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