The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday summoned Mumbai’s former police commissioner Sanjay Pandey in connection with a prevention of money laundering case related to the phone tapping of National Stock Exchanges (NSE) employees between 2009 and 2017.
On Thursday, the ED got a four-day custodial remand of Chitra Ramkrishna, former managing director and chief executive officer (MD&CEO) of NSE.
According to IANS, the ED wants to confront Ms Ramkrishna with Mr Pandey, and record the statements.
“Money was laundered during the phone tapping and the payments made are alleged proceeds of crime. There are shell companies. We want to know who was handling the entire operation,” the report says quoting a source.
“The ED will probe if any proceeds of crime were generated through this alleged illegal act and the accused laundered public funds,” the report says.
The ED’s case is based on a first information report (FIR) filed by the CBI. This case was lodged by the probe agency at the directions of the Union ministry of home affairs (MHA).
The CBI had on last Friday recorded the statement of Mr Pandey at its Mumbai…
