Enforcement Directorate

NEW DELHI: Veteran Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Anand Sharma on Tuesday came out in support of party interim chief Sonia Gandhi as she appeared for the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for the third. Sonia Gandhi earlier appeared before the ED on July 21 and July 26. She has been questioned for over eight and […]

KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP Derek O’Brien slammed the central government on the suspension of 19 opposition RS MPs on Tuesday. “More than suspension of MPs, its democracy that has been suspended in India,” O’Brien said as 19 Rajya Sabha MPs from the opposition camp have been suspended for the week to attend the […]

NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a charge sheet against former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and National Conference party chief Farooq Abdullah in connection with Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA) money laundering case. The ED said that the supplementary charge sheet has been filed against Abdullah, Mirza Sons (a firm), Ahman […]

NEW DELHI: Days after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Trinamool Congress leader Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee and his aide and actor Arpita Mukherjee, the financial probe agency has summoned another party MLA Manik Bhattacharya in connection with the teachers’ recruitment scam. A senior ED official related to the probe told The New Indian, “Bhattacharya has […]

NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) recovered a black diary of Bengal department of school education and higher education during searches at a flat of arrested state minister Partha Chatterjee’s aide Arpita Mukherjee in the teacher recruitment case. Chatterjee held the education portfolio when the irregularities in the recruitment allegedly took place. Partha and Arpita […]

NEW DELHI: Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for second time in the National Herald money laundering case on Tuesday. On July 21, she was questioned for more than 2.5 hours by the ED. Her daughter and Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was present at the ED office during the […]

KOLKATA: At the special court’s hearing regarding the SSC scam matter, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday produced a deed that shows that both the accused — West Bengal tainted minister Partha Chatterjee and his aide Arpita Mukherjee —  are associated with each other since 2012. “During the search at residential premises of Arpita Mukherjee, […]

NEW DELHI: The money laundering case against Vivo India Limited, the Chinese phone maker, is not a case of mere commission of an economic offence but has been carried out as an attempt to destabilise the financial system of the country and also threaten the integrity and sovereignty of the nation, the Enforcement Directorate has […]

NEW DELHI: Even as the Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Bengal government Minister and Trinamool Congress leader Partha Chatterjee, the financial probe agency had registered a case of money laundering against him in June this year on the basis of the CBI FIR registered on the orders of the Calcutta High Court. The ED case alleged […]

KOLKATA: The medical report prepared by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Bhubaneswar has taken a direct swipe at the tainted Mamata government minister Partha Chatterjee, saying the medical examination done on him did not yield any indication or signs of fresh ailment in him, thereby ruling out any stay or treatment […]