ED summons to Hemant Soren: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued a fresh communication to Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, asking him to once more be a part of the investigation in a money laundering case subsequent week, official sources mentioned right now (January 27). Soren has been requested to substantiate his availability for questioning on both January 29 (Monday) or January 31 (Wednesday), they mentioned.
The central company had earlier requested the Jharkhand chief minister to affix the probe on any date between January 27 and 31 however since there was no official response, it has issued a fresh letter-cum-summons to the 48-year-old politician, who can be the manager president of the ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM).
The ED recorded Soren’s assertion for the primary time within the case on January 20 after its investigators went to his official residence in Ranchi. The assertion was recorded underneath the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in the course of the almost seven hours the investigators spent at his house.
It has been learnt that the fresh summons was issued because the questioning had not been accomplished that day. The investigation pertains to an enormous racket of unlawful change of possession of land by the mafia in Jharkhand, in keeping with the company.
The ED has up to now arrested 14 folks within the case, together with 2011-batch IAS officer Chhavi Ranjan who served because the director of the state’s Social Welfare Department and deputy commissioner of Ranchi.
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