An Enforcement Directorate (ED) team on Monday reached the Delhi residence of Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren in connection with a money laundering investigation.
According to sources, the visit could be linked to his fresh deposition in an alleged land fraud case in which the ED had questioned him at his official residence in Ranchi on January 20, PTI reported.
On January 27, the agency issued a fresh summons to him asking him to confirm his availability for questioning on either January 29 or January 31, sources told PTI.
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Soren has skipped the ED summons nine times so far.
The ED recorded Soren’s statement for the first time in the case on January 20 after its investigators went to his official residence in Ranchi. The statement was recorded under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) during the nearly seven hours the investigators spent at his home.
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The investigation pertains to a “huge racket of illegal change of ownership of land by the mafia” in Jharkhand, according to the probe agency.
(With inputs from PTI)