RAJ KUMAR
Ranchi, June 16: The Enforcement Directorate summoned Ezhar Ansari on June 22 at its regional office in the Jharkhand capital.
An ED source informed about the summons saying it was sent today.
“ED had seized cash worth Rs three crore during raids in a money laundering case related to IAS officer Pooja Singhal and others in Hazaribagh district. A large number of bundles of Rs 500 and Rs 2,000 notes were seized from the premises of a person named Mohammad Ezhar Ansari, a coal trader,” the ED source said.
The ED is quite active in Jharkhand. It handles cases of laundering of money earned by different illegal means including land scam, illegal mining, illegal transportation of minerals, MNREGA scam and others. So far the probe agency has sent two IAS officers, Chhavi Ranjan and Pooja Singhal, chief engineer Virendra Ram, two Kolkata-based businessmen, Amit Agrawal and Pradeep Ghose, and a representative of chief minister Hemant Soren besides several others to jail.
It is expected after questioning Ansari, the probe agency will get some more clues to proceed further in the case of money laundering which hogs the limelight in Jharkhand.
