ED arrests Saket Gokhale in money laundering case

NEW DELHI/AHMED-

ABAD, JAN 25 (PTI):

The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday arrested Trinamool Congress (TMC) spokesperson Saket Gokhale in a money laundering case linked to alleged irregularities in a crowdfunding initiative in Gujarat, official sources said.

Gokhale was taken into custody under criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in Ahmedabad where he is lodged in judicial custody in a Gujarat Police case.

He will be produced by the federal agency before a local Ahmedabad court seeking his remand, the sources said.

The state police arrested Gokhale from Delhi in December last year in a case of alleged misuse of money he had collected through crowdfunding.

The Gujarat High Court had on Monday refused regular bail to Gokhale in this case as it asked him to approach the