Mumbai, March 9 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday said it has attached assets worth more than Rs.50 crore of a sugar mill owned by a company of Rohit Pawar, the grandnephew of Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) chief Sharad Pawar, as part of a probe into a money laundering case related to the Maharashtra State Co-operative Bank (MSCB) scam.
According to an ED official, the federal agency attached assets worth Rs.50.20 crore linked to Aurangabad-based Kannad Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana (SSK), which is part of Rohit Pawar-led firm Baramati Agro Private Limited (BAPL).
The MSCB money laundering case stems from an August 2019 FIR of the Mumbai Police Economic Offences Wing (EOW). The scam pertains to illegal sale of sug...