The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registered a corruption case against IRS officer Sameer Wankhede together with others. A search operation is underway at 20 areas together with Mumbai, Ranchi, Kanpur, Delhi.
Former Mumbai zonal director of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Sameer Wankhede had come to limelight following the high-profile October, 2021 raids by the NCB on a Mumbai cruise after which the company had arrested Aryan Khan, son of actor Shah Rukh Khan, and 19 others and claimed to have seized some narcotics too. The NCB had later given a clear chit to Aryan Khan.
The CBI in its FIR has alleged that Wankhede and others demanded Rs 25 cr in Cordelia Cruise Aryan Khan case and took Rs 50 lakh as extortion.
Earlier, Thane police had additionally registered an FIR against Narcotics Control Bureau’s former Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede for alleged forgery in reference to a licence which he had procured for a bar and lodge owned by him in Navi Mumbai.
Wankhede, who was being probed for allegedly submitting a pretend caste certificates for getting a authorities job, was given a clear chit by the caste scrutiny committee.
