Express News Service | Kolkata | September 6, 2014 2:24 am
Trinamool Congress leader Asif Khan, who has been in hiding for some time , surfaced Friday and said he was ready to speak to the CBI and ED if summoned in connection with the multi-crore Saradha chit fund scam.
“I did not receive any notice from CBI and ED as of now. If I am summoned I would speak. CBI is investigating into the matter, and it is good,” he said appearing before news channels.
Khan, whose Park Circus residence was searched by the CBI recently, alleged that many TMC leaders had amassed wealth in the last three years.
“I have seen many TMC leaders who used to sleep on empty stomach. Now many of them have Rs 100 croreto Rs 1,000 crore in their pockets. I do not know from where that money came.”
Khan had taken over a newspaper called ‘Ajker Kalam’ from Saradha CMD Sudipta Sen and was under scanner for his business deals with Sen.
Khan, who was the TMC’s observer in Uttar Pradesh during the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, said he has resigned from the post.
However, he maintained he was still a member in the party.
Khan was known as one of the closest associates of TMC general secretary Mukul Roy.
TMC sources revealed that Roy has severed ties with Khan and after he fell out with the TMC general secretary, Roy had in a statement said Khan was no more a TMC member.
Talking to The Indian Express, Khan said: “I am still a member in the party. I resigned from the post of observer in UP as I was not able to visit the state regularly.”
He denied Roy’s claim and said, “I did not know what Roy said about me. But I never received any official notice of expulsion from the party.”
Denying having gone “underground”, Khan said, “I was in Singapore when the CBI conducted search operations at my residence. I was never absconding and why should I abscond?”
Denying having gone “underground”, Khan said, “I was in Singapore when the CBI conducted search operations at my residence. I was never absconding and why should I abscond?”
He added he never received any notice from the CBI or ED.
Khan could not be contacted for several days after the raids.
“If I had received any notice from the agencies, I would have given them information which I have. But if I do not know something, then how can I tell them? “ asked Khan.
Sources revealed that Khan covertly tried to contact senior officials in the agencies and sent a message that he was ready to share “important information” about some TMC leaders.
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