The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday issued fresh summons to Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut, asking him to appear on July 1 for questioning in a money laundering case linked to alleged irregularities in the redevelopment of a chawl in Mumbai’s Goregaon area, and financial transactions purportedly involving his wife, officials familiar with the matter said.
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The Rajya Sabha member was issued the first summons for Tuesday. Terming the ED notice as a “conspiracy” to stop him from fighting his political opponents, Raut on Monday sought more time from the agency that investigate financial crimes, citing a meeting he was supposed to attend at Alibaug in Maharashtra’s Raigad district.
Raut’s lawyer on Tuesday met ED officials at Ballard Estate and requested 14 days’ time.
“We received the first summons on Monday evening. The agency officials had asked us to bring certain documents,” Raut’s lawyer told reporters after the meeting. “As Raut will require some time to collect the documents, we requested the agency officials to grant us 14 days to do the needful.”
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But the central agency rejected the request and gave Raut relief only till the end of June and summoned him for questioning on July 1.
The ED summons to question the 60-year-old Raut and record his statement under the…
