KOLKATA: TMC general secretary Abhishek Bhanerjee was on Friday quizzed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the coal scam case for around seven hours.
\nBanerjee \u2014 who is the nephew of TMC supremo and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee \u2014 was summoned by the ED and interrogated at its office at the CGO Complex in Kolkata’s Salt Lake.
\nThe 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.
\nThe 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 \u2014 who is the nephew of TMC supremo and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee \u2014 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}