New Delhi:
Billionaire Niranjan Hiranandani was questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) at the moment in a international trade violation case, sources stated.
Niranjan Hiranandani, 73, the promoter of Mumbai-based Hiranandani Group, recorded his assertion and likewise submitted some paperwork, information company PTI reported.
His son Darshan Hiranandani was additionally requested to affix the investigation by the ED in Mumbai as a part of the probe below the International Trade Administration Act (FEMA).
A Hiranandani Group spokesperson stated the corporate’s consultant will stay totally cooperative in submitting required paperwork as was accomplished beforehand a number of occasions and can seem when wanted.
Darshan Hiranandani has been dwelling in Dubai for the previous a number of years.
The ED had searched premises of the Hiranandani Group in and round Mumbai final month. The realty group, established in 1978, has developed workplace and residential initiatives in Powai in central Mumbai and neighbouring Thane.
This ED probe will not be linked to a different FEMA investigation being carried out towards Trinamool Congress chief Mahua Moitra, who was not too long ago expelled as a Lok Sabha MP.
BJP MP Nishikant Dubey had accused Ms Moitra of asking questions in Lok Sabha to focus on the Adani Group and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the behest of Darshan Hiranandani in trade for presents.
Ms Moitra has denied wrongdoing and claimed she was being focused.
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