NCP’s Praful Patel questioned for 12 hours in Money-Laundering Case

TIL Desk/National/Mumbai/ NCP leader Praful Patel was questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for nearly 12 hours in connection with a money-laundering probe linked to alleged illegal assets of late Iqbal Mirchi, an aide of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.

An ED official claimed on Friday night that Patel “did not cooperate” with the inquiry. When asked if he would be summoned again on Saturday, the official did not offer any comment. However, in future Patel may also be confronted with Rakesh Wadhawan of the real estate group HDIL, the official said over alleged links between the group and Patel, he said.

Around fifty questions were put to Mr Patel during the inquiry on Friday, he said. Mr Patel, a former Union minister in the UPA regime, reached the ED office in south Mumbai around 10.30 am after being summoned by the central agency. He emerged from the office exactly 12 hours later Patel has already been questioned by the ED in an another money laundering case linked to the aviation scam.