Nawab Malik’s allegations against Fadnavis and the fake notes case he referred to

Maharashtra priest and NCP pioneer Nawab Malik on Wednesday asserted that previous boss priest Devendra Fadnavis had secured a phony money racket busted in October 2017 after demonetisation of cash notes in 2016 with assistance from NCB zonal chief, Sameer Wankhede, who was then with Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI).

What has Nawab Malik claimed?

Malik has claimed that on October 8, 2017, the DRI held onto Rs 14.56 crore of phony money in BKC Mumbai. However, the matter was hidden away from plain view by Fadnavis and was accounted for as a phony notes instance of Rs 8 lakh as it were. He asserted that the key individual captured by the DRI was the sibling of Haji Arafat Shaikh, who was subsequently made the Minority Commission executive by the Fadnavis government.What is the phony notes case record by the DRI in 2017 that Nawab Malik has alluded to?

October 7, 2017, the DRI held onto Rs 10 lakh in counterfeit Indian cash notes and captured Haji Imran Alam Shaikh, then, at that point, general secretary of North Central region Congress advisory group, his uncle Zahid Shaikh, a Khar-based realtor Mahesh Alimchandani and a Pune inhabitant Shivajirao Khedekar regarding course and dispersion of phony notes of Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 in the city. The DRI observed that the phony notes were pirated into the country from the Indo-Bangladesh line and were of top notch as around 20 of the 31 security elements of the new Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 notes were duplicated in the phony notes. Therefore, the DRI likewise captured a man named Rehan Khan, a critical denounced for the situation from Kalyan in Maharashtra, and held onto great quality phony notes of Rs 9.75 lakh and phony Rs 2,000 notes which referenced Children’s Bank of India instead of Reserve Bank of India, with a presumptive worth of Rs 6 lakh.According to a top DRI official, the claims of Nawab Malik are mistaken. While Wankhede, a joint chief at DRI, was responsible for the situation against Haji Imran Alam Shaikh – the sibling of Haji Arafat Shaikh-and others, the absolute phony money recuperated from Haji Imran Alam Shaikh was Rs 10 lakh.

What is the situation with the DRI case?

The argument booked by the DRI against Shaikh and others is forthcoming in the court for arraignment, said a source. All the denounced for the situation are presently temporarily free from jail.