Kolkata. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Shankar Aadhya late on Friday night in a ration distribution case worth crores of rupees. After this, ED presented Shankar Aadhya in the special PMLA court on Saturday. Where the ED lawyer claimed that in the last few years, Shankar Aadhya has earned about Rs 20 crore in foreign exchange transactions. The ED counsel also said that such foreign exchange transactions were done through 90 agencies. According to the agency, the TMC leader was unable to produce any document related to the source of the money Aadhya earned.
The ED believes that this huge transaction of foreign exchange was done using the proceeds of the alleged ration distribution scam. ED counsel told the court that Indian rupees were converted into foreign currencies. Then transferred abroad mainly to Dubai, sometimes directly and sometimes through Bangladesh. The special court judge expressed surprise at the involvement of such a huge amount of money in foreign exchange transactions. “There is such a huge amount of transactions and yet some people claim that it is a poor state,” he said. Aadhya’s lawyer claimed that dealing in foreign currency is not an illegal business. His client acted legally.
