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Money laundering case: Congress MP Dhiraj Sahu appears before ED for second consecutive day

Congress MP Dhiraj Prasad Sahu arrived at the Enforcement Directorate office for questioning in connection with a money laundering case, for the second consecutive day.

The central agency questioned Sahu, a Jharkhand-based Rajya Sabha MP, for almost ten hours on Saturday regarding the BMW that was found at Hemant Soren’s residence in the Shanti Niketan neighborhood of South Delhi. Chief Minister Hemant Soren is not the owner of the recovered BMW, according to Rajya Sabha MP Sahu.

“It was about the BMW. This is not even a matter. The vehicle does not belong to the (former) CM (Hemant Soren). It belongs to someone else. Investigation is being done regarding the same,” Sahu told reporters after coming out of the ED office.
Hemant Soren was arrested on the night of January 31 after a seven-hour grilling by the ED in the money laundering case. He resigned as the Chief Minister before that.
Earlier, the ED informed that it had recovered cash in excess of Rs 36 lakh from the possession of the JMM chief, along with documents linked to the ongoing investigation into the alleged acquisition of land by ‘fraudulent means’.

The JMM leader’s residence in Delhi was the source of two luxury cars that the central agency claimed to have taken from there. In the meantime, Dhiraj Sahu’s home state of Jharkhand and the neighboring state of Odisha were the locations from which the Income Tax department retrieved over Rs 300 crores in cash in December of last year. The searches were carried out at the Odisha-based Boudh Distillery Private Limited.

Facing heat after crores of rupees were unearthed, Congress distanced itself from the matter and said that the party is in no way connected with the businesses of the former and that the lawmaker from Jharkhand should explain the matter.

Sagarika Gautam

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