India, May 14 -- Prashant Ramugade, the deputy chief engineer of Mithi River Development Project, had visited Dubai and Singapore in 2020-21 using funds provided by Ketan Kadam, who was arrested last week in connection with the alleged Rs.65-crore Mithi river desilting scam, the Mumbai police's Economic Offences Wing (EOW) said on Tuesday.

Kadam and Jayesh Joshi, who allegedly acted as intermediaries in renting out desilting machines to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) at inflated rates, knew Ramugade prior to submitting bids for the desilting work, the EOW told the Esplanade court. Kadam even hosted the civic official and his family in Delhi and bought the tickets for their foreign trips, the EOW said.

The EOW had, on May 6...