TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee’s sister-in-law Maneka Gambhir was stopped by the ED on the Kolkata airport on Saturday night from touring overseas and summoned to affix the probe within the cash laundering case, official sources mentioned.
Gambhir had reached the airport from round 9 pm to take a flight to Bangkok.
Sources mentioned on Sunday that Gambhir was denied immigration clearance on the idea of a Look Out Circular (LoC) issued towards him by the Federal Investigation Agency.
He mentioned immigration officers stopped him and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) was knowledgeable after which he reached the airport, spoke to him and refused permission to journey.
ED officers later summoned him to look earlier than the company at 11 am on Monday (September 12) at its workplace in Kolkata’s Salt Lake space for questioning in a cash laundering case associated to an alleged West Bengal coal theft case. assigned. , the sources mentioned.
She is believed to have left the airport for her Kolkata house at round 10.30 pm on Sunday.
The ED has not but questioned Gambhir on this case. The CBI had earlier questioned him within the mentioned case.
In August, the Calcutta High Court directed the ED to interrogate Gambhir at its regional workplace in Kolkata and never in Delhi and in addition to not take coercive steps towards him until the subsequent date of listening to.
Gambhir had challenged the ED’s summons asking him to look in Delhi on September 5 within the alleged coal rip-off case and sought a course to the courtroom to permit the company to look earlier than him in Kolkata. . lives.
The ED has earlier questioned West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee and Trinamool Congress (TMC) nationwide basic secretary and his spouse Rujira on this case.
While Abhishek Banerjee has been questioned by the ED in each Delhi and Kolkata, Rujira has been questioned in Kolkata, as he acquired related reduction from the courtroom like Gambhir.
The matter is being probed by the ED beneath the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), during which Anup Majhi is claimed to be the mastermind of a cash laundering case associated to coal mining thefts associated to the mines of Eastern Coalfield Limited in and round Kunustoria and Kajora. . Asansol in West Bengal.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
