
Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) had appointed a special inquiry team that was set up to investigate the role of the former Mumbai zone chief Sameer Wankhede and the speculations raised regarding regularities and violations during his tenure. Sameer Wankhede was investigating the drugs-on-cruise case in Mumbai in which Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan was also arrested for a brief period. It has recently surfaced that Wankhede had misreported Aryan’s foreign travel expenses and purchases of luxury watches which further twisted the case
The irregularities found “are a wrong committed by the applicant (WankhThe Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had recently raided Sameer Wankhede who was allegations for demanding 25 crore as a bribe to not frame Aryan Khan in the Cordelia drugs case. The CBI also registered an FIR against him for corruption and alleged violation of the rules during the raids on the Cordelia cruise in October 2021. Aryan Khan was arrested onboard the cruise and spent about a month in jail. He was later released after the Special Investigation Team (SIT) as they found no evidence whatsoever against him. Sameer Wankhede had alleged that the NCB deputy director general (DDG), Gyaneshwar Singh, who is also the SET chief, was “acting as judge of his own cause and conduct”.
Sameer Wankhede, the CBI informed, had been selling and purchasing expensive wristwatches with a private entity. He also couldn’t prove the funding that led to his expensive foreign trips. The SET report said Sameer Wankhede, “in a span of about 5 years from 2017-21 made six private foreign visits with family to the UK, Ireland, Portugal, South Africa and the Maldives spanning over 55 days of foreign stay with declared amount of ₹8.75 lakh only which barely can cover the cost of air travel.” The inquiry with its new revelations said that Sameer Wankhede visited abroad several times on private trips and details of his previous visits had also been mis-declared in the prescribed pro-forma.