The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on May 11 summoned the Maharashtra State president of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Jayant Patil in connection with the Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Limited (IL& FS) money-laundering case.
Mr. Patil, a Cabinet Minister in the previous Maha Vikas Aghadi, has been asked to appear before the Central agency on May 12. His statement may be recorded at the Mumbai office of ED.
IL&FS had filed for bankruptcy in 2018. On May 10, ED had searched premises of two former auditor firms in Mumbai — BSR and Associates and Deloitte Haskins and Sells under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA)