The Enforcement Directorate on Saturday interrogated Congress’ Rajya Sabha MP from Jharkhand, Dhiraj Prasad Sahu, for about 11 hours in reference to a cash laundering case linked to alleged land fraud, by which the company lately arrested former chief minister Hemant Soren, officers mentioned.

Sahu, 64, entered the ED’s regional workplace right here at round 11 am and left it at 10 pm.

He has been known as for questioning once more on Sunday because the interrogation couldn’t be accomplished, officers mentioned.

The Congress MP was within the information in December final yr after the Income Tax division seized ₹351.8 crore in money throughout raids on the premises linked to Odisha-based Boudh Distillery Pvt. Ltd, promoted by his household.

The ED is recording Sahu’s assertion in connection along with his alleged hyperlinks with Soren and a luxurious automobile that was seized by the company from the JMM government president’s residence in Delhi throughout a search final month, the officers mentioned.

According to the officers, ED sleuths discovered the automobile’s key within the Jharkhand government-leased property in south Delhi and took the car with them after the completion of the raids there.

Asked concerning the topic of the interrogation after he got here out of the ED workplace, the Congress MP mentioned it was concerning the luxurious car.

“There is nothing much… The vehicle did not belong to the former CM and is owned by someone else… The investigations are on about this,” Sahu mentioned.

On whether or not the automobile belonged to him, Sahu mentioned, “This is wrong …this is a lie.”

Asked concerning the money allegedly recovered from the car, the MP mentioned: “I have nothing to do with that …That car is not mine.”

Meanwhile, in keeping with sources, a WhatsApp group has come below the scanner of the federal company the place some folks linked to the case mentioned the possession particulars of the seized BMW automobile in Delhi.

Sahibganj Deputy Commissioner Ramniwas Yadav and Soren’s press adviser Abhishek Prasad alias Pintu additionally appeared earlier than the ED on Saturday for questioning in a cash laundering investigation linked to alleged unlawful mining within the state, officers mentioned.

The ED sleuths had interrogated Prasad for a number of hours in reference to the case on Friday.

Meanwhile, Bhanu Pratap Prasad, who’s one other accused within the cash laundering case associated to Hemant Soren, on Saturday was taken to a bit of land at Bargain circle in Ranchi which, the ED claims, belonged to the previous chief minister.

Bhanu Pratap Prasad, a former income division sub-inspector of the Jharkhand authorities who’s in ED custody in reference to the case, was taken there as a part of the investigation, the officers mentioned.

Soren was arrested on January 31 night time after he resigned because the Jharkhand chief minister. Senior get together chief and transport minister Champai Soren was then made his successor.