TMC's Abhishek Banerjee questioned for 7 hours by ED in coal smuggling case
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TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Friday left the ED office after seven hours of questioning in connection with the probe into the coal smuggling case.
All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Friday left the Enforcement Directorate (ED) office after seven hours of questioning in connection with the probe into the coal smuggling case.
Abhishek Banerjee, the nephew of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, reached the agency's office at CGO Complex in Salt Lake near Kolkata around 11 am.
A team of five officers of the ED reached Kolkata on Thursday night to question Abhishek Banerjee.
This is the third time he has been questioned by the ED in coal scam case.
Meanwhile, the ED has also sent a notice to Abhishek Banerjee's sister-in-law Menoka Gambhir for questioning in the same case on September 5.
Menoka Gambhir has been asked to appear before sleuths of the central agency at its New Delhi office.
The ED lodged a case under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) based on a November 2020 FIR registered by the CBI that alleged a multi-crore coal pilferage scam related to Eastern Coalfields mines in West Bengal’s Kunustoria and Kajora areas in and around Asansol.
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