Overview
- The Enforcement Directorate, which registered a money-laundering case on April 6, searched 11 premises Monday across Nashik, Pune and Shirdi under the PMLA.
- Early findings flag more than 130 accounts at cooperative credit societies that listed the same nominee and phone number, with roughly ₹60 crore flowing through them to mask control.
- Investigators say the proceeds were steered into real estate via CA Prakash Pophale and his family, including a ₹2.40 crore purchase on March 28, 2024 at Kalman in Solapur.
- Separate records show a wider asset map of at least 51 land parcels and built properties across Nashik, Ahmednagar, Pune and Raigad, including a farmhouse near the Mirgaon temple and a revenue-generating wedding lawn near Shirdi.
- A Nashik court on Tuesday remanded Kharat to five days of police custody in a fourth rape case, as an SIT and the ED press on with parallel probes and political figures trade accusations over alleged links.