KOLKATA: TMC general secretary Abhishek Bhanerjee was on Friday quizzed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the coal scam case for around seven hours.
Banerjee — who is the nephew of TMC supremo and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee — was summoned by the ED and interrogated at its office at the CGO Complex in Kolkata’s Salt Lake.
The ED has lodged a case under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002, based on a November 2020 FIR registered by the CBI that alleged a multi-crore coal pilferage scam related to Eastern Coalfields Limited mines in Kunustoria and Kajora areas near Asansol in West Bengal.
The ED had claimed that the 34-year-old TMC parliamentarian was a beneficiary of funds obtained from this illegal trade. He has denied all charges.
