New Delhi: In mounting trouble for Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee, the latter has got notice from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for questioning in the money laundering case linked to Coal scam in the state. Abhishek Banerjee’s wife Rujira Banerjee is also under the scanner of ED officials and she has also been summoned for questioning before the probe agency.
A total of 5 people have been summoned by the ED for questioning in the coal scam. Abhishek Banerjee has been summoned on September 6, his wife Rujira on Sept 1 while DIG Midnapore Range Shyam Singh and ADG CID Gyanwant Singh have been called on Sept 8 & 9 respectively. Sanjay Basu, another official linked with Coal scam has to appear before ED on Sept 3.
West Bengal CM’s nephew is currently the MP from Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha seat and is also national general secretary of the Trinamool Congress (TMC).
Enforcement Directorate summons AITC General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee on 3rd Sept and his wife Rujira Banerjee on 1st Sept, along with others with their bank details, over Coal Scam issue.
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According to ED officials, Abhishek Banerjee was a beneficiary of funds obtained from this illegal trade.
Mamata’s nephew was already under the scanner of CBI officials. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had filed an FIR against him and many other officials, alleging that a multi-crore coal pilferage scam related to the Eastern Coalfields Ltd mines in the state”s Kunustoria and Kajora areas in and around Asansol. Local state operative Anup Majhi alias Lala was named as the prime suspect in the case.
During police raids, it was found theft and pilferage of coal was happening in government coalfields and it was apparently being done in connivance with public servants in the state.
Depending on CBI case, the ED sleuths lodged a complaint against him for alleged money laundering under PMLA.
Taking note of the CBI’s FIR, the ED had initiated money laundering probe into alleged theft in the government coalfields, carried out in connivance with public servants, in West Bengal.
