According to CBI sources, there could be deeper trouble and more embarrassment waiting to happen for the ruling Trinamool Congress.

According to insiders, the central agency currently probing the multi-crore Saradha chit fund case was all set to summon “a top most all-India Trinamool Congress leader” may be in a week’s time for interrogation. Though there was no evidence of any direct financial transaction between this leader and jailed Saradha chief Sudipto Sen — as in the case of MPs Srinjoy Bose and Kunal Ghosh or former DGP Rajat Majumdar — CBI sources said all the six witnesses who had got their statements recorded under Section 164 of the CrPc had taken this “topmost” leader’s name.

Apart from Majumdar and Ghosh, former Trinamool leader Asif Khan and a businessman Aminuddin had also taken this leader’s name before the CBI, sources said. Sen’s deputy, Debjani Mukherjee, his two drivers including Arvind Singh Chauhan who had driven Sen’s car while he fled to Kashmir in April 2013 and two senior accountants of his company had also told the CBI that this leader held meetings with Sen. The summons could come sooner than later “may be in a couple of days’ time” insiders said adding the CBI had enough evidence to show that this leader had held a meeting with Sen before he fled Kolkata after his chit fund company bombed.

Thereafter, Sen maintained regular contact with the leader while on the run. The CBI wanted to  know about the transaction of a newspaper company between this leader and Sen before he fled, sources said adding it would also try to know the whereabouts of the alleged transportation of Rs500-crore in two consignments to this leader from Sen, sources said.

Half of the stated money was transported to UP and another half was taken to Odisha, sources in the CBI quoted Khan as telling them. There were other leaders and influential persons who were in the queue of getting summons from the CBI, sources said adding among these notables were Trinamool MPs Shatabdi Roy and Ahmed Hasan Imran, painter Suvaprasanna, actor-director Aparna Sen and industrialist Harsh Neotia.

Meanwhile, a day after Trinamool general secretary and student leader Sankudeb Panda was summoned by the ED Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday attacked the central agency saying “Sanku was summoned only because he is in the Trinamool Congress.  He was called because he reportedly took his salary from the Saradha group as a working journalist. If a man does not take his salary will he work for free!” he told a crowd at Kharagpur.