About eight premises of some contractors, who reportedly submitted “false” MoUs to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Company (BMC) with regard to dumping of silt, are being coated within the metropolis, the sources mentioned.
The ED earlier carried out raids on this case, together with on the premises of actor Dino Morea, his brother Santino, sure contractors and firms other than some BMC officers.
The ED case stems from an FIR filed by the Financial Offences Wing (EOW) of Mumbai Police in Could in opposition to 13 individuals, together with contractors and civic officers, for an alleged Rs 65.54 crore rip-off within the tenders awarded from 2017-2023 for the desilting of Mithi river, which flows by Mumbai and acts as a stormwater drainage channel for the metro metropolis.
The Uddhav Thackeray-led undivided Shiv Sena managed the cash-rich BMC from 1997 until the occasion's cut up in 2022.
After the expiry of the final physique in 2022, the civic physique was managed by the Maharashtra authorities, which was then headed by Eknath Shinde.Police alleged of their criticism that BMC officers tailor-made the tender for the desilting contract in such a method that it benefited a selected provider of equipment, and the contractors reportedly generated fraudulent payments for transporting the sludge out of Mumbai.The EOW and ED earlier questioned Morea and his brother, other than some others.
Mumbai civic authorities deliberate the desilting of the river following the 2005 floods, which introduced the town to a grinding halt.
