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Mithi river scam: ED conducts searches at multiple locations in Mumbai

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Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is conducting searches at multiple locations across Mumbai on Friday in connection with the Mumbai Mithi river scam, officials said.

Sources said ED officials probing the alleged financial irregularities and corruption related to the river’s cleanup project have reached the residence and offices of the officers of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation and the contractors who are part of the project.

The Mumbai police’s Economic Offences Wing (EOW) has constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) and is conducting a probe into certain irregularities and the financial losses caused to the civic body. Last week it has questioned Bollywood actor Dino Morea and his brother Santino Morea for their possible links to a firm involved in Mumbai’s multi-crore Mithi river desilting project and also close links with the arrested accused Ketan Kadam of Vodar India Ltd.

The SIT has registered a case against 13 persons, including contractors and civic officials, in connection with the scam.

One of the arrested accused, Jay Joshi, of Virgo Specialties Pvt Ltd, was on Thursday granted bail by the sessions court after his bail plea was rejected by a local court.

Joshi had supplied a machine, which he had imported from the Netherlands for Rs 8 crore in March – April 2021 and was used in the project.

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