A day after a witness alleged criminal conspiracy in Aryan Khan’s arrest, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Monday stressed that under the guise of desh bhakti (patriotism), some people are lodging fake cases and extorting money.

He also highlighted the name of Sam D’Souza and claimed that he is the biggest money-laundering player of Mumbai and country.

While speaking to media, Sanjay Raut said, “Sam D’Souza is the biggest money-laundering player of Mumbai and country. It’s a big game which has just started. The facts which came to light are shocking.

“Under Deshbhakti pretext, some people are extorting money, lodging fake cases,” he added.

Raut’s remarks have come a day after a witness alleged that he was made to sign on blank papers by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) authorities and that he reportedly overheard an alleged pay-off of Rs 8 crore to the NCB’s Mumbai zonal director, Sameer Wankhede.

The allegations were made by Prabhakar Raghoji Sail, who claims that he had worked as a bodyguard for KP Gosavi, the private investigator whose selfie with Aryan Khan had gone viral after he was taken into NCB custody on October 2 following a drug bust.

Sail alleges that he overheard Gosavi speaking with a certain Sam D’Souza and tell the latter: “‘You put a ‘bomb’ of Rs 25 crore, let’s settle for Rs 18 crore and give Rs 8 crore to Sameer Wankhede.”

He claimed that he has seen Pooja Dadlani (Shah Rukh Khan’s manager) talking with Gosavi and D’Souza and later he was instructed by Gosavi to go to a particular location to collect Rs 50 lakh cash, which was delivered to him in two bags. He then handed over the same to Gosavi at the latter’s home in Vashi.

Sail recounted that he was later directed by Gosavi to hand over the bags to D’Souza, and that the latter had called him near a five-star hotel as the rendezvous point. He handed over the bags to D’Souza and claimed in his affidavit that when the latter counted, it amounted to Rs 38 lakh.