Mumbai: In a startling finding, it has come to fore that former Vasai-Virar civic chief Anil Pawar made his wife and co-accused, Bharti, heads in several firms, setting up her as a front to launder crime proceeds, said the ED.

Despite being a housewife, Bharti admitted that she received monthly salaries in the range of Rs 75 lakh to Rs 95 lakh monthly from various firms despite knowing nothing or very little about the nature of work, the ED underlined. Besides, she conceded that her annual agricultural income stood between Rs 50 lakh to Rs 60 lakh, it added.

Systematic Laundering Scheme

The agency claimed that wherever Pawar was transferred, there was a person who would help the couple in creation of new entities, routing of cash flow via these firms and laundering crime proceeds in th

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