EOW seeks to probe firms linked to Ajit Pawar in co-op bank scam

Mumbai police Economic Offences Wing (EOW) has sought permission to investigate companies linked to leader of opposition Ajit Pawar and his MLA nephew Rohit Pawar in the Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank (MSCB) scam, saying the companies had acquired sick sugar mills via auctions through suspicious transactions.

- Rebecca Samervel & Vijay V Singh

Mumbai: The development comes two years after the agency filed a closure report stating that no fraud had been committed during the auctions. The MVA government was in power then.

The EOW needs court approval to investigate the matter further. In a written statement to the special court recently, the agency said it wanted to further probe some suspicious deals involving the Pawars along with few other transactions. It referred to the ED’s probe into a money laundering case linked to the scam.