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By Suryagni Roy: Sukanya Mondal, daughter of TMC leader Anubrata Mondal, has been named in the supplementary chargesheet of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) along with a host of individuals and her father in connection to a money laundering case related to alleged cattle smuggling to Bangladesh.
As per the ED, while Sukanya has denied having any knowledge of the businesses in her name and investments, the investigating agency has told the court that her income grew exponentially from 2019-2022.
Sukanya was arrested by the ED in Delhi last week, almost six months after her father was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) from Birbhum, West Bengal.
As per the chargesheet presented by the ED, during the course of the investigation, Sukanya stated that she has been a primary school teacher since 2014 and that was her only source of income.
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It also read that she admitted to being a shareholder in some companies and firms but did not know anything about what her father knew.
Sukanya also told the ED that she used to sign documents like bank account opening forms and chequebooks whenever her father asked her to. On being inquired about ANM Agrochem Foods Pvt Ltd and Neer Developer Pvt Ltd, she stated that she does not know anything about them but her father knows.
Furthermore, on being told that in the Income Tax Return (ITR) of 2017-18 of Bidyut Baran Gayen, the email id provided is rubaimondal@gmail.com, she denied knowing any such email id even though her alias is Rubai.
On being asked about the huge cash deposits in her bank account and being confronted with the bank statements, Sukanya Mondal stated that she had no idea about the same.
Sukanya’s statements come at a time when the central investigating agency officials have already come across transactions worth lakhs that were allegedly routed to Sukanya via Biswajyoti Banerjee alias Moon — a domestic help of the Mondal family. Moon allegedly told the investigators that these transactions were done at the insistence of Saigal Hossain.
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