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Mumbai: Sameer Wankhede booked for graft, extortion in drugs-on-cruise case
Updated On: 13 May, 2023 07:45 AM IST | Mumbai | Faizan Khan
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Ex-NCB officer Sameer Wankhede. Pic/Satej Shinde
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has booked former NCB officer Sameer Wankhede and many others on charges of corruption and extortion in connection with the Cordelia cruise drugs case that had to the arrest of Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan.
Wankhede was the Narcotics Control Bureau’s (NCB) zonal director, Mumbai, at the time and probed the case. Among others booked are the then superintendent Vishwa Vijay Singh, Ashish Ranjan (the then intelligence officer of Mumbai zonal unit, NCB), K P Gosavi (a private person whose selfie with Aryan following latter’s arrest went viral), Sanvile D’Souza (a private person). The CBI alleged that the accused extorted an amount of about Rs 25 crore from the family members of the alleged accused by threatening them with the accusation of offenses of possession of narcotics substances as per the alleged directions of Wankhede.
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