The Trinamool Congress on Tuesday suffered yet another embarrassment with the Enforcement Directorate subjecting its MP Nusrat Jehan to six-hours intense questioning.
Jehan, an actress-turned-politician, was questioned for her alleged role in a Rs 24-crore real estate scam. Jehan was the Director of a company when the scam took place.
About 400 senior citizens were duped of Rs 24 crore between 2014 and 2016 when they were promised flats by the company. They even paid Rs 5 lakh each for the purpose but the apartments never materialized. The duped investors who later filed police complaint but without any visible result subsequently contacted BJP leader Sankudeb Panda who in turn wrote to the ED for seeking cognizance. “We had invested in company because an actress like Nusrat Jehan was a director there but we did not know that we would be cheated like this,” said one of the investors.
The ED reportedly asked Jehan about how she benefited from her post. According to sources the TMC MP had taken more than a crore from the firm as loan breaking provisions of the company laws.
However she paid back loans by 2016, she claimed. When asked to comment 33-year-old actor said, “I have answered all questions that have been asked by them and would cooperate with officials whenever they would ask me to do so.”