ED searches Kolkata tourism firm's office in connection with multi-crore coal pilferage scam

ED is probing the money laundering aspect of the scam, local coal operative Anup Majhi alias Lala is alleged to be the prime suspect in the case.

Kolkata: Officials of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday (September 4) conducted search operations at a private tours and travels company's office in Kolkata in connection with its probe into an alleged multi-crore coal pilferage scam, sources in the investigating agency said. Acting on a tip-off, ED officials went to the office located on India Exchange Place in the heart of the city and carried out searches, sources said. The case, registered under criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, was filed by the ED after studying a November 2020 FIR of the CBI that alleged a multi-crore coal pilferage scam related to Eastern Coalfields' mines at Kunustoria and Kajora areas in and around Asansol.