Rose Valley: ED summons TMC MPs Tapas Pal, Sudip Bandyopadhyay
Kolkata, Oct 2 (IBNS): The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned two Trinamool Congress (TMC) parliamentarians, Tapas Pal and Sudip Bandyopadhyay, in connection with its ongoing probe into multi-crore Rose Valley chit fund scam, officials said on Tuesday.
According to sources, the Central economic intelligence agency on Sunday served notices to Pal and Bandyopadhyay, TMC MPs from Krishnanagar and Kolkata Uttar (North) Lok Sabha constituencies respectively, asking them to appear at ED office at CGO Complex in Kolkata's Salt Lake city for interrogation within a week.
Sudip Bandyopadhyay told IBNS that he had received the notice from ED and he will appear before its investigators soon while actor-turned politician, Pal, could not be reached over phone.
The ED is investigating the money laundering and money rolling angles in the chit fund scam.
Earlier, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is also probing the criminal conspiracy angle into Rose Valley financial scam, arrested Pal and Bandyopadhyay for their alleged involvement in rupees 17,000 crore Rose Valley ponzi firm scam in December, 2016 and January, 2017 respectively.
Both the MPs were granted conditional bail from a local court in Odisha later.
Meanwhile, in a significant development in its ongoing probe into Saradha chit fund scandal, the CBI on Saturday sent notices to two IPS officials, including a retired police officer, under section 160 of CrPC, asking them to appear before its investigators at Salt Lake CGO Complex for interrogation within a week.
Sources in the Central investigation agency said that Malda SP Arnab Ghosh and retired Kolkata Police official Pallab Kanti Ghosh, who were the key members of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted by West Bengal government to investigate Saradha probe, have been summoned.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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