ED issues fresh summons asking TTV Dhinakaran to appear on 22 April
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued fresh summons to AMMK leader TTV Dhinakaran to appear on April 22 for questioning here in a money laundering case linked to alleged bribing of Election Commission officials to get the AIADMK’s ‘two leaves’ symbol for the VK Sasikala faction, officials said.
He was grilled and his statement was recorded for the first time by the federal agency here for about 8 hours on April 12. The agency’s notice and investigation against the 58-year-old politician came after the Enforcement Directorate recently arrested jailed ‘conman’ and another accused in this case, Sukesh Chandrashekhar.
The next round of questioning scheduled for April 22 is aimed to take the probe forward, they said. While exiting the ED office late night on April 12, Dhinakaran told reporters that he cooperated with the agency and replied to their questions in the Sukesh Chandrashekhar case.
Chandrashekhar too is being grilled by the agency in the case over the last week. The ED case under the criminal provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) is based on the primary FIR field against the accused by the Delhi Police crime branch in 2017.