New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate raided Maharashtra Chief minister Uddhav Thackeray’s brother-in-law on Tuesday in connection with a money-laundering case.
The central agency also froze Rs 6.45-core assets owned by Thackeray’s kin Shridhar Patankar.
The attached assets — including 11 residential units in the ‘Neelambari’ project in Thane — were part of a company floated by Patankar.
In the recent past, the ED has arrested Shiv Sena ally and Nationalist Congress Party leaders Nawab Malik and Anil Deshmukh in alleged money scams. Both are behind bars.
Shiv Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray has stridently accused the Centre of letting loose its agencies on opposition leaders.
A long-standing partnership between the Shiv Sena and the BJP dissolved in 2019 over power-sharing issues after the assembly elections.
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