Mumbai: ED officials arrested former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh on Monday after questioning him for more than 13 hours in an alleged money laundering case. He attended the ED office for probe into the allegations of Rs.100 crores extortion leveled by former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh.

The development came a day after the CBI nabbed a middleman Santosh Jagtap from Thane, who was an alleged conduit in the corruption deals and evading arrest. Deshmukh came under a cloud in April 2020 after Singh’s letter to the Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray alleging that he had set a Rs 100-crore collection target for the former dismissed cop, Sachin Vaze.

Deshmukh had moved the Bombay High Court but got no relief, while his case is pending before the Supreme Court, even as the agencies have summoned his wife Aarti and their son Hrishikesh for probes, while the ED has attached portions of his properties worth Rs 4.20 crore.