The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on December 29 filed a supplementary charge sheet against former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh in connection with a money laundering case.

The probe agency filed the 7,000-page charge sheet, which also names Mr. Deshmukh’s sons as accused in the case, before a special court in Mumbai assigned to hear matters related to the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

The ED had earlier filed a charge sheet against 14 accused, including Mr. Deshmukh’s private secretary (an additional collector-rank officer) Sanjeev Palande and personal assistant Kundan Shinde.

Mr. Deshmukh was arrested by the ED on November 1 this year in connection with the case and is currently in judicial custody.

The ED had launched a probe against Mr. Deshmukh and his associates after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed an FIR against the senior NCP leader on April 21 this year on charges of corruption and misuse of official position.

The ED’s case is that while serving as State Home Minister, Mr. Deshmukh allegedly misused his official position and through Sachin Vaze, a police officer who has been dismissed from service after his arrest in the ‘Antilia’ bomb scare and Mansukh Hiran killing cases, collected ₹4.70 crore from various bars in Mumbai.

The money was laundered to Nagpur-based Shri Sai Shikshan Sansthan, an educational trust controlled by the Deshmukh family. Both Mr. Palande and Mr. Shinde had played an important role in circulating and laundering the unaccounted money, according to the anti-money laundering agency.

Mr. Deshmukh, who resigned from the post of State Home Minister earlier this year, has repeatedly denied the charges against him.