New Delhi: The ED on Wednesday again questioned RJD MP Misa Bharti's husband Shailesh Kumar in connection with a Rs 8,000 crore money laundering case, official sources said. Kumar has been summoned again to seek more information in the case and also to record his statement, they said.
He and his wife Misa Bharti, daughter of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad, have been grilled in the past too in this case.
Kumar, the sources said, will be confronted with the documents seized by the ED till now in the case and the statements given by his wife and other accused, they said.
Both Kumar and Misa Bharti are being questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for their alleged role in a firm, Ms Mishail Printers and Packers Private Limited, their other finances and links with a chartered accountant who was arrested by the agency earlier in the case.
The agency filed a charge sheet in this case before a Delhi court sometime back and it was expected to file a fresh one soon.
Misa, it is understood, could also be summoned again.
The ED had on July 8 conducted searches at three Delhi farmhouses of Bharti, Kumar and the firm.
The agency had attached a farm house in Palam sometime back and it was now probing the alleged slush funds used to purchase this asset by the couple, they said.
The latest summons to Kumar are related to a Rs 8,000 crore money laundering probe being conducted by the agency against two Delhi-based businessmen brothers -- Surendra Kumar Jain and Virendra Jain, and others, who are alleged to have laundered several crores of rupees using over 90 shell companies. The Jain brothers were arrested by the ED earlier under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
One of the firms that the arrested duo dealt with was Ms Mishail Printers and Packers Private Limited.
Bharti and her husband are alleged to have been directors of this firm in the past.