The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested former Mumbai Police commissioner Sanjay Pandey in connection with a money laundering case linked to the alleged illegal phone tapping of NSE employees, officials said.
The retired 1986-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer was taken into custody by the federal probe agency after more than seven hours of questioning in the case.
Pandey, wearing a white shirt, was seen walking into the ED headquarters here around 11:30 AM for the second consecutive day of his questioning. He met Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, who is in Delhi, before that. He has earlier been questioned by the agency in another case booked by it to probe alleged co-location scam at the NSE and at that time (July 5) Pandey was seen carrying a bag on his shoulders as he went inside the agency’s office from the back gate.
The ED had last week arrested former NSE MD and CEO Chitra Ramkrishna in the case and had recently told the court that the ”snooping of phone calls” at the NSE was being done from 1997. Pandey’s company under scanner in this case was set up in March, 2001.
Transaction of funds worth about Rs 12 crore allegedly to Pandey and his company are under the scanner of the agency.