MNS leader Nitin Sardesai quizzed in Kohinoor Square investigation

A fortnight after questioning the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday quizzed another top leader of the party, Nitin Sardesai, in connection with an alleged payment default probe involving Dadar’s Kohinoor Square tower project. Sardesai, a former Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Mahim constituency, was grilled for over six-and-half hours at the agency’s Ballard Pier office where he showed up at around 11.30 am. The questioning went for well past 6 pm.
Though Sardesai evaded media after he emerged out of the ED office following his questioning, sources said he was quizzed over his partnership in Matoshree Infrastructure Pvt Ltd, which had invested in the Kohinoor Square tower project, and the share he got when the company exited the project in 2008 after netting Rs 80 crore.
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Sources said that Sardesai was one of the nine partners in Matoshree Infra which had invested Rs 4 crore in Kohinoor Properties Pvt Ltd (KPPL), a consortium formed along with former Chief Minister and senior Shiv Sena leader Manohar Joshi’s son, Unmesh, and a CA firm. Of the Rs 4 crore, while Rs 3 crore came as loan from a cooperative bank, another Rs 1 crore was chipped in by two other investors. Sardesai, sources said, held 10 per cent shares in Matoshree Infra, while Thackeray held 25 per cent.

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