Apart from the land, plant, machinery and building belonging to the Jalna Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana (SSK) Ltd. located at Sawargaon Hadap village in the said district have been attached after the agency issued a provisional order under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), the Enforcement Directorate said in a statement.
The assets of Jalna SSK are “currently held in the name of Arjun Sugar Industries Pvt. Ltd., a company incorporated by Arjun Khotkar and others on May 8, 2012 only with a view to purchase the Jalna SSK Ltd.”, the federal probe agency said.
Sixty-year-old Khotkar has been a Shiv Sena party MLA from Jalna and has also served as a minister in the Maharashtra government.
He is considered close to party supremo and Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray who is currently battling a political crisis caused by rebellious MLAs of his party which is in power in the state along with the NCP and Congress.
The ED last year had similarly attached assets worth ₹65 crore of a Satara-based sugar mill in the MSCB scam case and had said that a company linked to state deputy chief minister and NCP leader Ajit Pawar and his wife were involved in the case.
The MSCB money laundering case stems from a August, 2019 FIR of the Mumbai police economic offences (EOW) wing.
The police complaint…
