ED summons TMC leader Mahua Moitra on Feb 19 in FEMA violation case

ED summons TMC leader Mahua Moitra on Feb 19 in FEMA violation case

Former Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra has been summoned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for questioning on February 19 in a foreign exchange violation case.

Her statement will be recorded under the provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) once she deposes, officials were quoted as saying by PTI.

Moitra is being probed by the CBI too and it is conducting a preliminary inquiry into the allegations against Moitra on the reference from the Lokpal.

BJP MP Nishikant Dubey had accused Moitra 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. He had also accused Moitra of compromising national security for monetary gains.

Following this, the Lok Sabha in December expelled the TMC MP after adopting the report of its Ethics Committee that found her “guilty of unethical conduct” and called for “an intense, legal, institutional inquiry’ by the government “in a time-bound manner” into the cash-for-query allegations against her.

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