Curated By: Sheen Kachroo
Last Updated: February 19, 2024, 22:30 IST
He had additionally accused Moitra of compromising the nationwide safety for financial good points.(Image: PTI/File)
The 49-year-old politician has been given every week’s time by the Directorate to seem after she despatched a communication to the company expressing her incapacity to depose, they mentioned
The Enforcement Directorate summoned TMC chief and ousted Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra for questioning in a FEMA violation case after she failed to seem on Monday, in keeping with PTI sources.
The 49-year-old politician has been given every week’s time by the Directorate to seem after she despatched a communication to the company expressing her incapacity to depose, they mentioned.
A response from the Trinamool Congress (TMC) politician was not accessible instantly.
The ED needs to query Moitra and report her assertion underneath the provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) as soon as she deposes.
Transactions linked to a non-resident exterior (NRE) account are underneath the scanner of the company within the case other than a couple of different overseas remittances and switch of funds, the sources mentioned.
Moitra is being probed by the CBI too which is conducting a preliminary inquiry into the allegations in opposition to Moitra on the reference from the Lokpal.
BJP MP Nishikant Dubey had accused Moitra of asking questions in Lok Sabha to focus on the Adani group and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the behest of businessman Darshan Hiranandani in change for presents.
He had additionally accused Moitra of compromising the nationwide safety for financial good points.
Moitra has denied any wrongdoing and claimed she was being focused as she had raised questions on the offers of the Adani group. “Neither has Lok Pal uploaded any referral order on website as per Lokpal Act & nor has CBI put out anything official.
“Sources” telling journos as per typical media circus. Hope Rs 13,000 crore Adani coal rip-off deserves CBI PE earlier than my witchhunt,” Moitra had mentioned on X in November.
(with PTI inputs)
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