The Enforcement Directorate (ED), which is probing the economic offences case against Pune-based businessman Hasan Ali Khan, will be filing a chargesheet within a month. ED)officials are on the second day of interrogating Khan at Worli police station following his surrender and subsequent arrest last week.

Khan faces up to four chargesheets from the ED, income-tax (I-T) department and the Worli police. A senior ED officer said if Khan cooperates with the agency, it will be filing a chargesheet for alleged offences under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) in a month. He said the other three chargesheets will include a money laundering case, an I-T department case and a multiple passports case.

The ED is currently probing Khan under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and FEMA. Khan is wanted by the ED for allegedly holding unaccounted money of up to $8 billion in Swiss bank accounts and some undisclosed accounts in the UAE.

The ED, however, feels the case of money laundering will take more time to investigate and it may take up to six months to file the chargesheet as more people are involved in the case. “We are not concentrating on where he was during the past one year. We are just confronting him with various documents regarding his accounts in Switzerland and Dubai,” the ED official said. “We need to interrogate him for a month and we will be seeking for the same from the court during the next hearing,” the official added.

Meanwhile, the ED is still holding on to the passport of Khan’s alleged co-suspect Philip Anandraj. In October, it had told the Bombay High Court that the investigation concerning Anandraj might conclude in two months. The court had directed the ED to dispose of an application filed by Anandraj seeking the release of his passport.

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