Hemant Soren tendered his resignation to Governor CP Radhakrishnan at the Raj Bhavan after about seven hours of questioning by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case linked to a land scam
As per sources, the ED had issued fresh summons to Soren, asking him to be available for questioning on January 29 or 31, or else the agency itself will go to him for questioning. This is the tenth summons issued to the Jharkhand Chief Minister, by the ED.
The Special Judge MK Nagpal issued notice to the probe agency and listed the matter for January 18, 2024, on the application seeking bail on the health grounds.
Earlier, ED had provisionally attached assets worth Rs 61.38 crore on 08-11-2021. The provisional attachment order was subsequently confirmed by the adjudicating authority on July 24, 2022.
This is the third notice to Kejriwal, also the national convenor of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), after he refused to appear before the federal agency on two earlier summons for November 2 and December 21.
Jacqueline Fernandez challenged the ED's complaint and the second supplementary charge sheet dated August 17, 2022 under Sections 3 and 4 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002
The ED had arrested party Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh and former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister and AAP leader Manish Sisodia in connection with the case earlier this year.
In its chargesheet, the ED alleged that Amway India generated proceeds of crime worth more than Rs 4,000 crore and a substantial part of it was siphoned off to overseas bank accounts
The Enforcement Directorate's charge sheet, filed before a Special Court, came two months after Goyal's arrest on September 1 in the Canara Bank complaint of November 2022