The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned senior Trinamool Congress leader and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee and his wife Rujira for questioning in connection with a case of money laundering associated with alleged pilferage of coal from Eastern Coalfield Limited mines.
Abhishek, an MP from Diamond Harbour, has been asked to appear before the Investigating Officer on September 6 while Rujira has been told to come on September 1. Rujira had been questioned by the CBI earlier in the case, filed last year. The ED case is based on the CBI FIR.
Addressing TMC workers during the foundation day of its youth wing, Mamata Banerjee accused the BJP-led government at the Centre of letting loose Central agencies on Abhishek,