{"id":353733,"date":"2023-08-08T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/08\/08\/jharkhand-chief-minister-summoned-for-questioning-in-money-laundering-case\/"},"modified":"2023-08-08T11:55:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T11:55:00","slug":"jharkhand-chief-minister-summoned-for-questioning-in-money-laundering-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/08\/08\/jharkhand-chief-minister-summoned-for-questioning-in-money-laundering-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Jharkhand Chief Minister Summoned For Questioning In Money Laundering Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Jharkhand Chief Minister Summoned For Questioning In Money Laundering Case\" alt=\"Jharkhand Chief Minister Summoned For Questioning In Money Laundering Case\" id=\"story_image_main\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2022-11\/uobh5lkg_hemant-soren-pti_625x300_04_November_22.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">Hemant Soren is being investigated over allegations of money laundering (File\/PTI)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b class=\"place_cont\">New Delhi: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren has been summoned by the Enforcement Directorate, or the ED, for questioning in a money laundering case.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Minister, under the ED&#8217;s scanner in an illegal mining case, has been asked to appear at the agency&#8217;s office in Ranchi on August 14 to record his statement under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Chief Minister skipped the ED&#8217;s summons in November and went to Chhattisgarh to attend a dance festival instead. Speaking about his decision to skip his questioning and attend the festival that was scheduled in advance, Mr Soren objected to what he alleged was a short notice from the probe agency to appear. &#8220;Are we thieves or anti-socials?&#8221; he asked while speaking to NDTV.<\/p>\n<p>Hemant Soren is being investigated over allegations of money laundering linked to an illegal mining case in Jharkhand&#8217;s Sahebganj district.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Minister, who is also in charge of the state mining ministry, has been accused of violating election rules by giving himself a mining lease in 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr Soren has, however, denied any wrongdoing and alleged a larger conspiracy to &#8220;harass a tribal leader&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span itemprop=\"video\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><meta itemprop=\"headline\" content=\"Rahul Gandhi Back In Parliament After 4 Months\"\/><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Rahul Gandhi Back In Parliament After 4 Months\"\/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Rahul Gandhi Back In Parliament After 4 Months\"\/><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2022-11\/uobh5lkg_hemant-soren-pti_625x300_04_November_22.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2023-08-08T17:25:00+05:30\"\/><meta itemprop=\"embedUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\/embed-player\/?id=716077&amp;category=embed&amp;pWidth=650&amp;pHeight=403&amp;embed_type=story&amp;mute=1&amp;autostart=1&amp;mutestart=true&amp;ctitle=0&amp;cache=2022\"\/><meta itemprop=\"ContentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/ndtvod.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com\/23372\/ndtv\/07082023_n_RahulGandhiReached_112787_64261_320.mp4\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont externalVideo fvotd\">\n<h3 class=\"s-ttl\">Featured Video Of The Day<\/h3>\n<p><iframe id=\"videoembed\" class=\"lozad\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2023-08\/4t728veg_rahul-gandhi-_640x480_07_August_23.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\/embed-player\/?id=716077&amp;category=embed&amp;pWidth=650&amp;pHeight=403&amp;embed_type=story&amp;mute=1&amp;autostart=1&amp;mutestart=true&amp;ctitle=0&amp;cache=2022\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:100%; height:403px; padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left:0px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Rahul Gandhi Back In Parliament After 4 Months<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/jharkhand-illegal-mining-case-money-laundering-probe-chief-minister-hemant-soren-summoned-by-enforcement-directorate-for-questioning-in-money-launderi-4280065\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Hemant Soren is being investigated over allegations of money laundering (File\/PTI) New Delhi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren has been summoned by the Enforcement Directorate, or the ED, for questioning in a money laundering case.\u00a0 The Chief Minister, under the ED&#8217;s scanner in an illegal mining case, has been asked to appear at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":353734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[71259,4479,315893,12779,324878],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}