ED, Kolkata Police begin separate probe into Rose Valley spouse link with ED official

Few days earlier, the Kolkata Police claimed that Gautam Kundu's wife Subhra Kundu, who acted in few  of the films produced by Rose Valley, had close connection with an Assistant Director of ED's eastern region- Manoj Kumar, who was the Investigating Officer (IO) of multi-crore Rose Valley financial scam.

Besides publishing several CCTV footage of the duo, in support of their statement, Kolkata Police claimed that the ED official laundered at least 15 crore rupees of 'Madam Rose Valley'- Subhra Kundu.

"After Central government's demonetisation move, Kolkata Police had strengthened its nakas and raids to catch black money holders and booked three men with scrapped notes worth Rs. 1.45 crore," a senior official of Kolkata Police told IBNS.

"After interrogating the trio, we raided few facilities of Rose Valley and came to know about the connection between Subhra Kundu and the ED official," the officer added.

However, the city police have formed a twenty-member Special Investigation Team (SIT), led by Joint Commissioner (Crime) Vishal Garg, to probe the case and already quizzed Subhra Kundu twice at her flat in south Kolkata's South City apartment, according to reports.

Meanwhile the SIT of ED interrogated their official Manoj Kumar, who has already been removed from Rose Valley probe and sent to compulsory waiting until his innocence is proven, for hours on Thursday.

"We asked the Kolkata Police to submit a detailed report in the case and an unedited version of the CCTV footage for our departmental probe," an ED source told IBNS.

According to reports, a team of Kolkata Police has submitted their report and a copy of the CCTV footage before Enforcement Directorate on Thursday evening.

However, the ED and Kolkata Police are likely to interrogate Subhra Kundu and Manoj Kumar respectively very soon, reports said.

Denying all allegations against him, ED official Manoj Kumar told IBNS: "I don't have any personal relationship with Subhra Kundu and I become a victim of a larger political conspiracy as I was leading the probe in a proper way and even my investigation's progress was praised by the honourable court."

Talking about the incident, a senior official of ED, in New Delhi, told IBNS, "Such allegation against an officer of an agency like Enforcement Directorate is very serious and we are investigating the matter with special importance,"

"The 3-men SIT has been directed to submit their probe report before the ED headquarters in New Delhi by next seven days," the official further said.

(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)