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          Former Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjay Pandey at the ED office, after being sum-   Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut arrives to appear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED)
          moned in connection with the NSE co-location scam, in Delhi (ANI Photo/Amit Sharma)   in connection with the alleged money laundering case in Mumbai (ANI Photo)


        to the company due to this act of the   stressed that companies who operate   agency recorded Pandey’s statement   land grabbing registered by people in
        Respondent (ED) and will negative-  in India should follow the law of the   under Section 50 under provisions of   Rampur against him.
        ly impact its reputation and business   land regarding the ongoing investi-  the Money Laundering Act (PMLA)   Just hours after the Enforcement
        operations.                       gation related to Vivo Mobile Com-  in the NSE co-location scam to know   Directorate (ED) summoned Sam-
            The freezing of the Bank Ac-  munications and some other Chinese   how an audit company incorporated   ajwadi Party leader Azam Khan, his
        counts will not only impede the exist-  firms.                      in 2001 by the retired Mumbai Police   wife and their son on different dates
        ing/prospective business operations   In  a  weekly  media  briefing  on   chief, who did not raise the red flag   before July 15, the SP leader was tak-
        of the Petitioner conducted through   Thursday by the Ministry of External   that the NSE servers were compro-  en to Rampur for a court appearance
        the Bank Accounts but will bear an   Affairs (MEA), official spokesperson,   mised.                   where he took a jibe at the Bharatiya
        adverse effect on the Petitioner’s op-  Arindam Bagchi said, “Companies   It is alleged that the firm incor-  Janata Party (BJP) stating all cases
        erations in India and across the globe,   who operate here need to follow the   porated by Pandey was one of the IT   will be lodged against the Opposition
        the plea said.                    law of the land. Our legal authorities   companies tasked with conducting   under BJP’s rule.
            “If amounts in the Petitioner’s   are taking steps as per law of the land.   security audits at NSE during 2010 to   “All the cases will continue to be
        Bank Accounts remain frozen, it   I don’t see the case to make com-  2015 when the co-location scam is be-  on us, some other government people
        would not be able to pay its statutory   ments as such on it.”      lieved to have taken place.       will also be sued, all the cases will be
        dues to the competent authorities un-  Meanwhile, the Enforcement Di-   In another high-profile case, the   on the opposition parties under BJP,”
        der various enactments, leading to the   rectorate (ED) on Tuesday questioned   Enforcement Directorate (ED)  has   said Khan. He also stressed that he
        Petitioner, being in further violation   former Mumbai Police Commission-  summoned  Samajwadi  Party  leader   was en route to the ED’s office as the
        of law. The freezing also prevents the   er Sanjay Pandey for nearly eight   Azam Khan, his wife and their son   agency had called him and said, “The
        payment of salaries to the thousands   hours in National Stock Exchange   on different dates before July 15 in   ED has called me, now that they have
        of employees of the Petitioner.”  (NSE)   co-location  scam  case.  connection with a case linked to the   asked me, I will go.”
            On Tuesday, Enforcement Di-       Pandey, who retired as Mum-   construction of Mohammad Ali Jau-     Meanwhile, in another jolt to
        rectorate conducted searches at more   bai Police Commissioner last week,   har University.           the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena
        than  40  locations  including  Uttar   reached the ED headquarters around   Khan, his wife Tazeen Fatima,   faction, a former Member of Parlia-
        Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and some   11.20 am here at ED headquarters   and their son Abdullah Azam have   ment quit the party on Thursday.
        southern states in connection in con-  and left around 6.40 pm. Pandey   been asked to appear at its zonal of-  Anandrao Vithoba Adsul, former
        nection with a money laundering case   reached  ED  headquarters  in  an  au-  fice in Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow. The   Lok Sabha MP from Maharashtra’s
        registered against Chinese smart-  to-rickshaw, dodging media persons   case is linked to a massive fund trans-  Amravati resigned as a leader of the
        phone manufacturer Vivo.          waiting for his appearance since   fer for the construction of UP’s Ram-  Shiv Sena. Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut
            According  to  the  ED,  Vivo  In-  morning, and left in a private taxi.  pur-based Jauhar University. The ED   said, “Anand Rao has given his resig-
        dia’s nearly 23 associated firms such as   Dressed in a sky-blue shirt and   registered the case in 2019.  nation, I have learnt that ED was go-
        Grand Prospect International Com-  black pants, Pandey was deposed be-  In the ED’s money laundering   ing on against him, there was a raid
        munication Pvt Ltd (GPICPL) trans-  fore  the  investigators  following  ED   case against Khan, a team from the   at his residence... due to this pressure
        ferred huge amounts to the firm and   summons against him.          agency’s Lucknow branch had also   may be...such pressure is on many
        out of the total sale proceeds of Rs   Pandey was questioned for al-  conducted  verification  of  the  land   leaders.”
        1,25,185 crores, it remitted Rs 62,476   most two-and-a-half hours and al-  acquired by Mohammad Ali Jauhar   Whether the BJP government is
        crores almost 50 per cent of the turn-  lowed a lunch break around 2 pm.   University in Rampur in May.  using ED to harass and pressure op-
        over out of India, mainly to China.   The second part of the questioning   Khan was booked under the Pre-  position leaders or not, the agency
            Meanwhile, the Ministry of Ex-  started after the lunch break.  vention  of  Money  Laundering  Act   has become too powerful and nobody
        ternal Affairs (MEA) on Thursday      Meanwhile, the federal probe   in August 2019 based on 26 cases of   is beyond its reach.


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