Calcutta High Court Allows TMC Leader Abhishek Banerjee And His Wife To Go For Medical Treatment In Dubai
West Bengal: The Calcutta High Court has allowed TMC national general secretary and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee and his wife Rujira Banerjee to go to Dubai for treatment. The ED was not ready to allow them, after which Abhishek Banerjee had approached the Calcutta High Court. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is questioning Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew and Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee in a money laundering case related to the alleged coal scam in West Bengal.
At the same time, Abhishek Banerjee’s wife Rujira Banerjee was also summoned by the ED in the money laundering case related to the alleged mining scam. When Rujira Banerjee did not appear after several summons, the Patiala House Court had issued a bailable warrant against her on the application of the ED. After this Abhishek Banerjee and his wife had moved the Supreme Court.
Abhishek Banerjee has been questioned twice
The court had stayed the arrest of both. The court had directed the ED to interrogate Abhishek Banerjee and his wife in Kolkata. However, the court had further said that the state machinery should not be misused in any way during the interrogation, otherwise strict action would be taken. In this case, ED has questioned Abhishek Banerjee twice so far. The ED had earlier claimed that Abhishek Banerjee was the beneficiary of the money received from this illegal business. However, Abhishek has denied all the allegations.
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The ED had registered a case under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 on the basis of an FIR registered by the CBI in November 2020, in which ‘Eastern Coalfields Limited’ in Asansol and its adjoining Kunustoria and Kajora areas. Coal scam of crores of rupees related to mines has been alleged. Local coal operator Anoop Majhi alias Lala is the main accused in this case. The probe agency claimed that the documents recovered show that Majhi transferred the proceeds of the crime to the close relatives (wife and sister-in-law) of Abhishek Banerjee in London and Thailand.
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