ED searches home of senior Kolkata cop in ‘laundering scam’

KOLKATA/NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate (ED) connected Sunday raided the residence of a Kolkata Police DCP (Special Branch), Shantanu Sinha Biswas and arrested metropolis businessman Joy Kamdar successful a moneylaundering probe linked to alleged amerciable onshore deals and extortion . The ED enactment during the Bengal canvass play came days aft I-T searches astatine the location of TMC campaigner Debashis Kumar and Miraj Shah, 1 of CM Mamata Banerjee’s information proposers successful her Bhowanipore seat. “The location of the idiosyncratic who looks aft my information has besides been raided since this morning. Do you privation to termination me? They are raiding america each day. We volition record cases for each azygous incident,” Mamata said astatine a rally successful Tarakeshwar connected Sunday.

Kamdar, managing manager of respective firms mostly successful existent estate, was taken into custody aft questioning astatine ED’s office. Searches were carried retired astatine his Behala residence; ED claimed to person recovered Rs 1.2 crore cash. He had earlier skipped 2 ED summons. ED sleuths besides searched DCP Biswas’s Ballygunge home. A erstwhile OC of Kalighat Police Station, helium was not present. His counsel termed the raids “unanticipated”. The probe stems from alleged amerciable onshore deals and extortion by a syndicate led by history-sheeter Biswajit Podder, aka Sona Pappu. ED said a Toyota Fortuner and a US-made revolver were seized during a caller search. ED sources said illicit funds were routed done ammunition and beforehand companies to integrate them into morganatic channels.