The Enforcement Directorate (ED) will be questioning TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee in the coal smuggling case.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) will be questioning TMC MP and party national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee in connection with the alleged coal smuggling case.
Sources said that the questioning of Abhishek Banerjee will take place in ED’s Delhi office on Monday morning. India Today has learnt that officials of Headquarters Investigation Unit of ED will be questioning the TMC MP and a questionnaire has already been prepared by the officials.
Mamata Banerjee’s nephew, Abhishek Banerjee, will be questioned under section 50 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act in connection with the alleged coal smuggling case which has connection with top politicians of West Bengal, according to the ED.
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While speaking to the media, Abhishek Banerjee on the allegations said, “I am ready to face any enquiry or every enquiry. If they have evidence that I have even taken 10 paisa, then there is no need to use CBI or ED, I am ready to be hanged. Because they (BJP) lost the political battle, they are doing this vendetta politics and that’s why when the case pertains to Kolkata, they have called me to Delhi.”
Earlier, Abhishek Banerjee’s wife Rujira, who was asked by the ED to appear on September 1, skipped the summons and requested the investigative officer to question her in Kolkata.
The investigation agency officials claim that two companies with political links – Leaps and Bound PVT LTD and Leaps and Bound Management Services LLP – received protection funds from a construction company via the accused who are being investigated in the smuggling case.
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