PANJIM: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday attached two plots in North Goa of HDIL promoters Rakesh Wadhawan and Sarang Wadhawan worth more than Rs 31 crore in connection with a money laundering investigation linked to alleged irregularities in the redevelopment of Patra ‘chawl’ in Mumbai.
The money laundering case stems from an FIR registered by the Mumbai Police’s Economic Offences Wing (EOW) against Guru Ashish Construction Pvt Ltd. and others. The Wadhawans were the directors of this company.
The ED had arrested Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) MP Sanjay Raut and his ‘close associate’ Pravin Raut in this case earlier.
The case pertained to a Rs 1,034-crore alleged land scam related to the re-development of the Patra ‘chawl’ in Mumbai’s Goregaon.
Guru Ashish Construction Private Limited was involved in the re-development of this ‘chawl’, which had 672 tenants living in tenements on 47 acres belonging to the Maharashtra Housing Area Development Authority (MHADA), the ED had said earlier.
