Chakraborty used to receive Rs 20l per month from company
Mega star-turned-politician Mithun Chakraborty has joined the list of Trinamool MPs served with summons notice by the Enforcement Directorate probing the multi-crore Saradha chit fund scam.
A summons notice has been sent to the Bollywood megastar at his Mumbai residence asking him to appear at the ED offices in Delhi or Kolkata in connection with the Saradha case, a top level ED official said on Wednesday adding the Directorate wanted to know about the kind of financial relationship the filmstar had with the ponzi company.
ED sources said referring to a few Saradha bank accounts that Chakraborty who was a brand ambassador of some of the group’s media channels used to receive Rs 20 lakh per month from company. He has been asked to report within a week’s time, officials said.
The bank accounts referred to by the ED suggested Saradha’s financial dealings with some ‘influential persons.’ Chakraborty is one of them. Earlier, the ED had questioned another Trinamool MP Srinjay Bose.
“We want to record Chakraborty’s statements regarding what kind of relationship he had with the Saradha group, for that mannter what kind of service he rendered to the group for the Rs 20 lakh he received per months from,” a senior official said adding the Directorate also wanted to know whether the Trinamool MP was only a brand ambassador of the company or he had other functions.
The filmstar could not however be contacted. The ED sources said Chakraborty could be questioned alongside other Trinamool MPs like Shatabdi Roy also a Bengali actor and Kunal Ghosh who is now in jail.
Meanwhile, Ghosh the journalist-turned-TMC Rajya Sabha member is known to have disclosed a host of ‘crucial names’ to the CBI which secured his custody from the court on Tuesday. The Central Investigating team also got the custody of Sudipto Sen, Debjani Mukherjee and a number of other Saradha operatives.
“He (Ghosh) has given the names of a number of State Ministers and MPs,” a CBI official said, adding Sudipto Sen was subjected to intense grilling on Wednesday. The investigating agency has received some vital information from Sen, official said. The officials were planning to jointly question Sen, Debjani and Ghosh, sources said.