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<\/div>\nJayant Patil has been asked to present himself before the probe agency tomorrow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
New Delhi\/Mumbai: <\/b><\/p>\n
The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Jayant Patil has been summoned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for questioning in a money laundering case.<\/p>\n
The Maharashtra unit president of the NCP has been sent a notice in a money laundering case involving the now bankrupt Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Limited (IL&FS). Mr Patil has been asked to present himself before the probe agency for questioning tomorrow.<\/p>\n
The probe agency earlier questioned Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray in the case of a loan given to Kohinoor Construction, the firm that is developing the Kohinoor Square tower in Mumbai’s Dadar.<\/p>\n
The summons to the NCP leader comes after the ED conducted searches against two former auditors of IL&FS – BSR and Associates, an Indian affiliate of accounting firm KPMG, and Deloitte Haskins and Sells. The probe agency has alleged financial irregularities at IL&FS.<\/p>\n
The probe agency’s action against the former auditors of IL&FS came after the Supreme Court had set aside a verdict of the Bombay High Court that had quashed a probe against the two firms.<\/p>\n
Some of the employees of the two auditors were also questioned by the officials during the searches and some documents were also seized.<\/p>\n
The money laundering investigation into alleged financial irregularities at IL&FS was launched by the ED in 2019, after taking cognisance of a First Information Report (FIR) filed by the Delhi Police’s Economic Offences Wing against a group of companies of IL&FS.<\/p>\n
The probe agency has alleged that the senior management of IL&FS was a party to acts of commissions and omissions, leading to illegal personal gains to them at the expense of the company.<\/p>\n
Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Limited filed for bankruptcy in 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n