New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday questioned Congress’s Rajya Sabha MP from Jharkhand, Dhiraj Prasad Sahu, for round 11 hours in relation to a cash laundering case related to alleged land rip-off, information company PTI reported. This case just lately led to the arrest of former chief minister Hemant Soren.
In response to the information company, Sahu arrived on the ED’s regional workplace round 11 am and left at 10 pm. Because the interrogation couldn’t be accomplished, Sahu has been summoned once more for questioning on Sunday, ED officers mentioned.
Notably, the Congress MP made headlines in December final yr when the Earnings Tax division seized Rs 351.8 crore in money throughout raids on properties linked to an Odisha-based distillery.
The ED is at present taking Sahu’s assertion relating to his alleged connections with Soren and a luxurious automobile that was seized by the company from the JMM govt president’s residence in Delhi throughout a latest search operation, PTI reported.
As per the ED officers, the automobile’s key was present in a Jharkhand government-leased property in south Delhi in the course of the raids, prompting the probe company to take possession of the automobile.
Whereas leaving the ED workplace, Sahu mentioned that the interrogation primarily revolved across the luxurious automobile.
“There’s nothing a lot. The automobile didn’t belong to the previous CM and is owned by another person. The investigations are on about this,” PTI quoted Sahu as saying. He additionally denied any involvement within the money allegedly recovered from the automobile.
In the meantime, it has been reported {that a} WhatsApp group, the place people linked to the case mentioned the possession particulars of the seized automobile in Delhi, has caught the eye of the central company.
In a associated growth, Sahibganj Deputy Commissioner Ramniwas Yadav and Soren’s press adviser Abhishek Prasad, alias Pintu, additionally appeared earlier than the ED on Saturday for interrogation in reference to a cash laundering investigation associated to alleged unlawful mining within the state, PTI reported.
Hemant Soren was arrested on January 31 after resigning because the Jharkhand chief minister, following which senior get together chief and transport minister Champai Soren was appointed his successor.