KOLKATA: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned Trinamool Congress MLA of Murshidabad Jakir Hossain, TMC chief Anubrata Mondal’s daughter Sukanya and two others to its workplace in New Delhi subsequent week in reference to the continuing investigation into the alleged cattle smuggling, an official of the probe physique stated on Thursday. Hossain, a former minister of the Mamata Banerjee authorities and a businessman, has been requested to hold all “necessary documents”, he stated.
“We have summoned Jakir Hossain in connection with the cattle smuggling case. He was asked to appear on March 2 and because he did not appear we have summoned him again next week,” the official advised PTI.
While the date of his look was not divulged by the probe company, Hossain advised PTI that he has not acquired the summons as but.
The Income Tax division seized Rs 11 crore in money from properties linked to Hossain in January this yr.
Sukanya Mondal, her driver Tufan Midda and non-teaching employees of Labpur College in Birbhum district, Vijay Rajak had been requested to seem earlier than the ED within the nationwide capital on March 20, the ED official stated.
Sukanya was earlier requested to seem earlier than the ED in Delhi on Wednesday however had skipped it. She had despatched a mail to the ED’s workplace requesting for time to seem earlier than it.
Meanwhile, Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad chief Kripamoy Ghosh, who was additionally served the summons on Wednesday night time to current himself on the central investigation company’s workplace in Delhi on Thursday didn’t accomplish that.
Ghosh was seen sitting with Mondal, the TMC Birbhum president, at a restaurant in Shaktigarh when the arrested chief was being taken from Asansol correctional dwelling to an ESI Hospital in Joka right here for a health take a look at earlier than being despatched to New Delhi.
ED officers stated that the financial institution accounts of Midda, Rajak and Ghosh had been allegedly used to obtain and switch cash.
“It seems that money collected in the smuggling was transferred through the bank accounts of these people. We need to know about the details of these fictitious transactions and that is the reason they have been summoned,” the ED official advised PTI.
The TMC strongman’s daughter had earlier appeared earlier than ED officers for interrogation associated to some fictitious transactions made by way of the accounts of two corporations the place she was named as director.
The probe company arrested Mondal’s chartered accountant Manish Kothari on Tuesday in reference to the alleged crime after a number of hours of questioning.
Mondal, the president of TMC’s Birbhum district unit and an influential chief of the occasion, was taken into custody by CBI within the cattle smuggling case in August 2022. He was arrested by the ED in November final yr and brought to New Delhi for the probe into the rip-off.
