The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued a third summons to Trinamool Congress leader Mahua Moitra in connection with irregularities in a foreign exchange contravention case, asking her to join the probe on March 28.
Moitra has been asked to join the investigation into the matter and appear before the investigators at ED headquarters in Delhi.
The fresh summons followed the earlier two summons when she skipped the investigation and did not appear before the investigators on March 11 and February 19.
Moitra has been asked to join the probe with some documents related to some foreign investments related to the case.
The agency wants to question Moitra in the case under the provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), 1999. The ED investigators want to record her statement linked to the case.
The 49-year-old politician is being probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) too and it is conducting a preliminary inquiry into the allegations against her on the reference from the Lokpal.
It is learnt that the ED case is based on the reference of the CBI case. Moitra has been in controversy since Bharatiya Janata Party MP Nishikant Dubey accused her of asking questions in the Lok Sabha to target the Adani Group and Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the behest of businessman Darshan Hiranandani in exchange for gifts.
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