The Enforcement Directorate concluded an intensive twenty-four-hour search operation in Kolkata on Tuesday, claiming to have unearthed financial irregularities and money laundering transactions amounting to approximately sixty crore rupees linked to a prominent Urdu daily associated with Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha lawmaker Nadimul Haque.
Federal investigators raided multiple commercial and residential premises across the city, including the registered publishing headquarters of the newspaper and affiliated corporate consultancies. According to senior agency officials, financial ledgers and seized digital storage devices revealed that inflated advertising receipts, fictitious billing companies, and shell entities were systematically deployed to route unaccounted cash into legal banking channels.
The agency initiated its probe under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act based on initial tax evasion complaints filed by state revenue watchdogs and financial intelligence authorities. Investigating officers seized incriminating bank account ledgers, share transaction documentation, and electronic communications detailing cross-border fund transfers.
Lawmaker Nadimul Haque strongly dismissed the allegations as politically motivated intimidation aimed at suppressing independent editorial voices ahead of state legislative contests. The federal agency issued formal summonses directing key financial executives and accounting auditors of the publication to appear before its Kolkata zonal headquarters for detailed interrogation.
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