Sonipat Congress MLA Surendra Pawar Arrested By Enforcement Directorate in 25 Crore Money Laundering Case

Congress MLA from Sonipat in Haryana Surendra Pawar has been arrested in a money laundering case worth 25 crore associated with illegal mining.

The MP/  MLA court has sent him to the Enforcement Directorate remand till July 29.

The ED had arrested the MLA following a fifteen-hour-long interrogation.

The ED had earlier raided several MLA-owned campuses on allegations of large-scale illegal sand mining in Yamuna Nagar.

The ED had learned that the MLA was the director of the firm involved in money laundering.

On the other hand, the MLA lawyer has denied the involvement of his client saying that he was just a shareholder.

On its part, the ED feels that anything between 400 to 500 crore black money had been earned during the past few years from illegal mining