After over 4 hrs of questioning, TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee’s wife, Rujira Banerjee, leaves ED office – ThePrint –

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 8 (ANI): Trinamool Congress nationwide normal secretary, Abhishek Banerjee’s spouse, Rujira Banerjee, on Thursday stepped out of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) workplace after being questioned for over 4 hours in reference to the alleged coal smuggling case.

Earlier, on Tuesday, Rujira was stopped by the immigration division at Kolkata airport from boarding a Dubai flight and was additionally handed a replica of the summons issued to her by the ED.

She was requested to look earlier than the central company at its Kolkata workplace on June 8.

The ED booked Rujira beneath the provisions of the PMLA, on the premise of an FIR filed by the CBI in November 2020.

The FIR was registered in reference to the alleged multi-crore coal pilferage at mines of the Japanese Coalfields Ltd within the Kunustoria and Kajora areas in and across the Asansol district.

Native coal operative Anup Majee is alleged to be the prime suspect within the case.

The ED had claimed that Abhishek Banerjee, who can be a TMC MP from Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha constituency, was a beneficiary of funds obtained from this unlawful commerce.

Banerjee has, nevertheless, denied all the costs. (ANI)

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