zonal office at ballard estate he left for the ed office with the trademark shiv senas saffron scarf around his neck waving to supporters from the sunroof of his suvoutside the ed office buildings heavy police bandobast was deployed and barricades placed sunil and handful of his friends were allowed to stand near the building which is guarded by cisf personnelthe case involves alleged payoffs to businessman and rauts close aide pravin raut who the ed suspects is a front for politicians in 2007 hdil subsidiary guru ashish construction had taken over the redevelopment of patra chawl in goregaon w after entering into an agreement with mhada the land owner and the tenants pravin and hdil promoters rakesh wadhawan and son sarang were directors in guru ashish construction pravin allegedly received rs 50 crore after he exited the company and another rs 45 crore from a land deal at palghar from the hdil group in february the ed arrested pravin and chargesheeted him after alleging that he received rs 112 crore between 2008 and 2010 from hdil in multiple instalments and failed to give valid reasonsin april the ed had provisionally attached a flat in dadar owned by rauts wife varsha and eight land parcels in alibaug jointly owned by her and businessman sujit patkars estranged wife swapna in alibaug collectively valued at rs 11 crore it is alleged that the pravin had generated money from the patra chawl redevelopment fraud and via patkar had diverted it to buy land in alibaug in the names of varsha and swapnaduring a recent search at patkars premises the ed had found the alibaug land documentsswapna had earlier told the ed that she had no ownership rights though her name was used and the land parcels belonged to sanjay raut last week she had complained to the ed and police that she received threats and was told to withdraw her statement against rautin the moneylaundering case the ed had first recorded rauts statement for 10 hours on july 1 the agency then questioned sujit and swapna separately about the alibaug land purchases and called raut again for further statement on july 20 but raut failed to appear citing electionrelated work and sought exemption till august 7 the ed refused and asked him to appear before it last wednesday raut did not turn up again and requested exemption till august 7 due to the ongoing parliament sessions but ed refusedwatch after hourslong ed raid shiv sena leader sanjay raut arrested in money laundering case