Mumbai, Feb. 11 -- Sameer Wankhede, a 2008-batch IRS officer, and two other NCB officers will soon be summoned by the ED for questioning in the money laundering case.
Having found himself in the dock, Wankhede, who had led the investigations in the cruise ship drug bust case as the then NCB's Mumbai's Zonal director, moved the Bombay High Court seeking quashing of the money laundering case registered against him by the ED in 2021 mid-sea drug bust case. Wankhede's petition is likely to be heard by a HC division bench on February 15.
The money laundering case registered by the ED is based on an Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) against him on the basis of an FIR registered by the CBI in May 2023. On his part, Wankhede chose not to...