ED ON THE HUNT

The Enforcement Directorate is investigating 10 leaders of the ruling MVA alliance

AJIT PAWAR, Finance minister (NCP)

CHARGE: Bought Jarandeshwar Co-op Sugar Mill for Rs 65.75 lakh, lower than the market price in 2010. Pawar says, “Let ED investigate, I was cleared of all charges”

NAWAB MALIK, Minorities welfare minister (NCP)

CHARGE: Bought a three-acre plot in Mumbai for Rs 75 lakh, lower than its actual price, from an aide of Haseena Parkar, sister of gangster Dawood Ibrahim

ANIL DESHMUKH, Ex-home minister (NCP)

CHARGE: Allegedly sent Rs 4.7 crore in extortion money to family-controlled trust, Sai Shikshan Sanstha

ANIL PARAB, Transport minister (SS)

CHARGE: Illegally constructed a palatial resort on farmland in hometown Ratnagiri

PRAJAKT TANPURE, MoS, Urban development (NCP)

CHARGE: Purchased Ram Ganesh Gadkari Cooperative Sugar factory in Nagpur at a price much lower than the actual

HASSAN MUSHRIF, Rural development minister (NCP)

CHARGE: Allegedly involved in a Rs 100 crore corruption case involving the Appasaheb Nalawade sugar factory, Kolhapur. Mushrif says he is only “helping the factory as the local legislator”

SANJAY RAUT, Party spokesperson (SS)

CHARGE: Allegedly got an interest-free loan of Rs 50 lakh for wife Varsha from Pravin Raut, an accused in the PMC Bank scam

BHAVNA GAWLI, MP (SS)

CHARGE: Converted a trust with assets of Rs 69 crore into an NGO under her control in Washim, her constituency. She says, “I myself am a complainant in the case”

ANAND ADSUL, Ex-MP (SS)

CHARGE: Allegedly involved in a fraud of Rs 980 crore in City Cooperative Bank, Amravati

PRATAP SARNAIK, MLA (SS)

CHARGE: Allegedly involved in a scam involving the National Spot Exchange Ltd