New Delhi: The ED on Sunday interrogated Dhiraj Prasad Sahu, a Congress Rajya Sabha MP from Jharkhand, for over 5 hours as a part of the company’s investigation right into a cash laundering case associated to an alleged land fraud, during which former chief minister Hemant Soren was arrested just lately.
Sahu appeared earlier than the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for the second consecutive day on Sunday to face questioning, officers stated. On Saturday, the ED had interrogated him for round 11 hours.
Sahu entered the ED workplace right here round 3 pm and got here out at 8.30pm, official added.
“Some paperwork was occurring and I used to be cooperating,” Sahu informed reporters after popping out of the ED workplace.
The ED recorded Sahu’s assertion in connection along with his alleged hyperlinks with Soren and a luxurious automotive that was seized by the company from the JMM government president’s residence in Delhi throughout a search operation final month, the officers stated.
In response to the officers, ED sleuths discovered the automotive’s key within the Jharkhand government-leased property in south Delhi and took the automobile with them after finishing the raids there.
Sahu, after the interrogation on Saturday evening, had informed reporters, “There’s nothing a lot… The seized automobile doesn’t belong to the previous CM and is owned by another person… investigations are on.” The Congress MP was within the information in December final yr after the Revenue Tax division seized Rs 351.8 crore in money throughout raids on the premises linked to Odisha-based Boudh Distillery Pvt. Ltd, promoted by his household.
Sahibganj Deputy Commissioner Ramniwas Yadav was additionally quizzed for the second consecutive day by the ED on Sunday in a cash laundering investigation linked to alleged unlawful mining within the state, officers stated.
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