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ED quizzes Trinamool MP Imran

| | Aug 25, 2014, at 06:51 pm
Kolkata, Aug 25 (IBNS): The Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials on Monday questioned West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member Ahmed Hasan Imran at their Salt Lake office here in connection with the multi-crore Saradha chitfund scam.

Sources said the ED had earlier sent two similar notices to Imran to appear before the office here in regard to the Saradha ponzi scam but the Trinamool MP never turned up. He also did not reply to the investigating agency citing any valid reason of his absence.

Imran, however, claimed on Monday that he never received any summon notice from the ED in the past three months.

“I came here to answer the queries of the investigating agency as they want to question me regarding the daily paper I run titled ‘Kalam’. I never had any talks with Saradha Group chief Sudipto Sen regarding any monitory dealings in the past,” Imran told media persons before entering the ED office to face interrogation.

The ED officials are likely to question the Trinamool Rajya Sabha MP about the financial dealings of Saradha-owned Bengali daily Kalam where Imran is an editor. Sources said Imran is a “front man” for Jamat-e-Islami, Bangladesh (JIB) and one of the founder members of the banned students’ outfit Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI).

The ED officials are likely to recode Imran’s statement during the interrogation, sources said.

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