The Enforcement Directorate has summoned National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah on Thursday for questioning in a cash laundering case, official sources mentioned on Wednesday.

The 86-year-old politician is known to have been known as in reference to the federal company’s investigation into alleged irregularities within the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA).

The MP from Srinagar Lok Sabha seat was charge-sheeted by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) within the case in 2022.

The case pertains to siphoning off the funds of the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association by means of switch to numerous private financial institution accounts of unrelated events, together with these of JKCA workplace bearers, and by means of unexplained money withdrawals from JKCA financial institution accounts, the ED had mentioned.

The company’s case is predicated on a 2018 cost sheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) towards the identical accused.

The summons have requested Abdullah, a former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, to depose on the ED workplace in Srinagar.