KOLKATA: Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday issued a recent summon for interrogation to the youthful brother of a Trinamool Congress chief already arrested by the company in reference to the ration distribution case in West Bengal.
The recent discover has been issued to Malay Adhya, the youthful brother of Trinamool Congress chief Shankar Adhya, who’s at the moment in judicial custody within the case.
Malay Adhya is a director of the ice-cream manufacturing entity christened ‘Anjali Ice-Cream’, which is owned by the arrested Trinamool Congress chief. ED sleuths have gotten particular clues concerning the proceeds of the ration distribution case being invested on this ice cream enterprise, sources stated.
That is the third time that Malay Adhya has been issued discover for interrogation and within the earlier two events he ignored the notices. Sources stated that the ED sleuths had been contemplating robust motion in opposition to him this time if he ignored the discover once more.
Already the ED sleuths have questioned the arrested Trinamool Congress chief’s daughter Rituparna Adhya final week for about six hours on the central’s company’s Salt Lake workplace within the northern outskirts of Kolkata. Nevertheless, after popping out of the ED workplace she refused to talk to the mediapersons.
Different members of the Adhya household, who’re additionally administrators in several companies linked to the arrested Trinamool Congress chief, are beneath the scanner of the ED sleuths.
The ED counsel has already knowledgeable a particular court docket of the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA) that Shankar Adhya was accountable for first changing a number of crores of rupees of proceeds within the ration distribution case into international forex after which diverted them by way of the hawala route abroad, primarily to Dubai and Bangladesh.
ED sleuths have already raided various places of work of international change dealing companies in Kolkata on this connection. The central company officers additionally carried out raid and search operations on the workplace of the private chartered accountant of Shankar Adhya.