The Enforcement Directorate has summoned Trinamool Congress leader Mahua Moitra for questioning in a FEMA contravention case. The former MP has been asked to appear before the agency on March 11.
The 49-year-old politician had sought a few weeks to join the investigation and sent a communication to the agency expressing her inability to depose before it last month, sources told PTI.
The anti-corruption agency wants to interrogate the TMC leader and record her statement under the provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) once she is deposed.
The case under FEMA was registered against Moitra as it has information about certain foreign transactions including undisclosed ones which are being probed under the Act
Through these summons, the ED now wants to probe the transactions linked to a non-resident external (NRE) account which is under the scanner in this case apart from a few other foreign remittances and transfers of funds, the sources said.
Moitra is being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) too in connection with the alleged cash-for-query case. She was expelled as a member of Lok Sabha after the Ethics panel found her guilty in that particular case.
BJP MP Nishikant Dubey had accused Moitra of asking questions in Lok Sabha to target the Adani group and Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the behest of businessman Darshan Hiranandani in exchange for gifts. He had also accused Moitra of compromising national security for monetary gains.
Moitra has denied any wrongdoing and claimed she was being targeted as she had raised questions on the deals of the Adani group.
Meanwhile, earlier in the day, the Delhi High Court dismissed an interim plea by Moitra, who was expelled from the Lok Sabha recently, seeking to restrain BJP MP Nishikant Dubey and advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai from posting or circulating any “fake and defamatory” content against her.
(With PTI inputs)
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