Mumbai: Former Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjay Pandey was arrested after being questioned by the ED in a money laundering case related to the alleged phone tapping of employees of the National Stock Exchange (NSE). At the behest of Chitra Ramakrishna, accused in the NSE case, the phone tapping was done by the people of NSE, Sanjay Pandey’s company is Private Limited.
Pandey retired on June 30. Prior to his four-month stint as the Mumbai Police Commissioner, he also served as the acting Director General of Police of Maharashtra. Meanwhile, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday said it had questioned Pandey and another former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh on charges of extortion of Rs 100 crore against former Maharashtra minister Anil Deshmukh. Both CBI and ED have registered a case against Sanjay Pandey in the alleged phone tapping of NSE employees. The ED had also questioned him in the ‘co-location’ scam case earlier this month.
The CBI and now the ED have registered a case against Pandey and his Delhi-based company ISEC Services Pvt Ltd, including former NSE Managing Directors and Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) Narayan and Ramakrishna, Executive Vice President Ravi Varanasi, and Head (Premises) Mahesh Haldipur among others. Is. The ED had received a call during the investigation of the case of alleged financial irregularities in the NSE, which was informed to the Union Home Ministry. After this, the ministry asked the CBI to investigate these allegations.
The CBI has alleged that Narayan and Ramakrishna, Varanasi, and Haldipur conspired to illegally tap the phones of NSE employees from 2009 to 2017 for which they hired ISEC Services Pvt Ltd, a company set up by Pandey in 2001. was kept on.
The company was opened after the IPS officer resigned, but his resignation was not accepted. The CBI alleged that the company had allegedly received Rs 4.45 crore for illegal tapping. The agency claimed that the company also provided a written copy of the taped conversation to the senior management of the stock exchange.
