National Conference president Farooq Abdullah has been summoned by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with a money laundering case linked to agency probe into alleged irregularities in the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA).
Abdullah, 86, has been asked to appear before the agency’s Srinagar office today, officials said on Wednesday. The Lok Sabha MP from Srinagar, Abdullah also served as the Chief Minister of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir. He was charge-sheeted in the case by the ED in 2022.
The case relates to alleged siphoning of funds of the JKCA through transfers to various personal bank accounts on unrelated parties that included JKCA office-bearers, as well as unexplained cash withdrawls from the cricket body’s bank accounts.
The ED case is based on a chargesheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation in 2018 against the same accused.
(With PTI inputs)