A team comprising three officers of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will be interrogating Narada News CEO in Cochin.
Sources said that the officers from Kolkata will be reaching Delhi on Sunday morning from where they will be going to Cochin.
It may be mentioned that the Calcutta high court on Tuesday had directed CBI to find out whether Samuel had offered money to the leaders on his own or whether they had asked for money from him. The CBI counsel had submitted before the court that the investing officer along with others from the agency will be questioning Samuel soon.
The CBI officers decided to go to Cochin to record the statement of Samuel as they were informed about his ill health and inability to turn up at Kolkata for the interrogation.
The CBI officers had earlier interrogated Samuel when the agency was undertaking a preliminary probe into the case as ordered by the Supreme Court. Subsequently, the case has been handed over to the CBI to undertake a complete investigation into the sting operation of Narada News.
It may be mentioned that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) also went to Cochin after Samuel didn't turn up at Kolkata after summoning repeatedly and interrogated him for two consecutive days.
The Kolkata Police have also summoned Samuel in connection with the case of Munchipara police station in which a video footage
featuring him was found in a laptop that was recovered from a hotel. A youth, who had fled from the hotel assessing that the police have conducted a raid, had been threatening a former Central minister to give money by showing the video footages.
Meanwhile, Iqbal Ahmed, deputy Mayor of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), failed to turn up at the CBI office on Saturday owing to his ill health. He was summoned by the CBI in connection with the Narada News sting operation.