Ratul Puri transacted huge amount of money for lavish stays in various hotels and spent $11,43,980 in a single night at a night club called Provocateur, stated ED.
While tracking Mirchi's business ventures and properties in India and the UK, the ED has discovered links with a firm that is linked to former UPA-era civil aviation minister Praful Patel and his wife Varsha Patel.
Mumbai Police had earlier imposed Section 144 in several areas of Mumbai to prevent possible law and order situation by NCP supporters in case Sharad Pawar visits ED office.
Prohibitory orders are in place in Mumbai as former Maharashtra Chief Minister Sharad Pawar is visiting the ED office after he was named in a money laundering case.
Antigua PM further added that Choksi will be deported ultimately after he exhausts all his appeals and added that Indian officials are free to investigate based on Mehul Choksi's willingness to participate.
Earlier, DK Shivakumar was admitted to Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital after the special judge Ajay Kumar Kuhar had directed the ED to take him for a check-up.