Dheeraj Prasad Sahu:- ED has sent summons to Congress Rajya Sabha member from Jharkhand, Dheeraj Prasad Sahu. The agency will record his statement in the money laundering case related to Hemant Soren. The biggest ever Income Tax raid was conducted at the residence of Dharij Sahu last December. In this raid, more than Rs 351 crore in cash was recovered from their locations in Odisha. It is being told that ED has got some evidence of Dheeraj Sahu’s relationship with Hemant Soren. The BMW car which was recovered from Soren’s residence in Shantiniketan in Delhi on January 29 is suspected to be related to Dheeraj Sahu. On Wednesday, ED raided the premises in Kardarpur village of Gurugram, Haryana, at whose address this car with Haryana number plate was registered.
Apart from this, the agency had also searched two places in Kolkata. It is noteworthy that Hemant Soren was arrested by ED on January 31 in the case of illegal purchase and sale of eight and a half acres of land in Ranchi. ED is currently taking him on remand and interrogating him for the last six days. In this connection, ED has collected the details of those people with whom he has had any kind of transaction. (IANS)