New Delhi: Abhishek Banerjee, TMC MP and Bengali Bengal’s nephew Banerjee Mamata, appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) here on Monday because of asking money laundering related to the alleged fraud of coal theft in the state, officials said.
The 33-year-old MP arrived at the Central Agency office at Nagar Clock in Central Delhi before 11 in the morning.
“I am ready to face investigations …
agency officials do their work and I will work with them,” he said.
The investigation officer this case recorded a statement with the provisions of the prevention of money laundering law (PMLA), officials said.
Abhishek Banerjee represents the Diamond Port Chair at Lok Sabha and is the National Secretary General of the Trinamool Congress (TMC).
Ed had submitted a criminal case under PMLA after studying the November celebration, 2020 CBI who accused the fraud of a multi-crore coal pier associated with the Timur West Balat Mine Ltd in the Kunustoria and Kajora area inside and around asansol.
Speaking to reporters at Kolkata Airport on Sunday, MPs said that he would get himself hung if there was a central agent could prove his involvement in any illegal transaction.
Local coal operations in West Bengal, Anup Majhi alias Lala, allegedly as the main suspect in this case.
Ed has claimed that Abhishek Banerjee is the recipient of the money obtained from this illegal trade.
His wife Rujira was also called by the agency in this case on September 1 but he did not appear by citing the Coronavirus situation that applies and asked the agent to ask him in Kolkata.
It can be understood that agency can provide relieved to him.
Some Indian police service officers (IPS) and a lawyer related to Abhishek Banerjee have also been called to appear on different dates this month.
Reacting to this call, Chairman of the Minister of Banerjee last week accused the center of releasing his agent on his nephew and claiming some BJP ministers worked “handed over gloves” with coal mafia.
Ed had caught two people in this case until now.
One of them is Vikas Mishra, the brother of the TMC Vinay Mishra TMC youth leader, which was declared to have left the country sometimes returned and left his Indian citizenship.
The second person who was arrested in this case was earlier this year was the former inspector responsible for the Bankura Police Station Ashok Kumar Mishra.
Ed previously claimed that Mishra’s brothers accepted “the results of a crime worth 730 crore on behalf of some influential people and for themselves” in this case it involves an estimated number of Rs 1,352 Crore.
“The profound system” of the political protection and the engine “oiled properly” was used to carry out certain unauthorized coal mining in West Bengal, Ed had claimed before the court while looking for the detention of the Inspector Mishra in April.
A chargesheet was also submitted by ED in May this year.
Citing a statement recorded from an unknown “association” in Majhi, the ED previously accused that Prime Suspect Majhi has run “Illegal coal mining business smoothly by managing a senior official of West Bengal political party even though Inspector Mishra.” This unknown “witness” statement equipped with ED in the remand record states that “it is known that the fact that Vinay Mishra raised money from illegal coal mining Majhi and his colleagues for his political boss in power; Vinay Mishra is a TMC youth leader and he is very Close to Abhishek Banerjee and that he (Vinay Mishra) is the eyes and ears of Abhishek Banerjee.
“The agency claimed that the documents seized by him showed that” Majhi helped in transferring large funds from the crime to close relatives (wife and brother-in-law) Shri Abhishek Banerjee (wife and brother-in-law) in London and Thailand.
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Money Laundering: TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee Appears Before Ed
