Latest Coal Traders News & Updates

Kolkata, May 23 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED), which has become active again in the multi-crore coal smuggling case in West Bengal, has issued summons to an inspector-rank officer of West Bengal Police and five coal traders for questioning.The police officer summoned by the ED is Monoranjan Mondal, former Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Budbud Police Station under the Asansol-Durgapur Police Commissionerate in West Burdwan district.Earlier, during the previous Trinamool Congress regime in We…

Kolkata, Feb 10 (IANS) Kiran Khan and Chinmay Monday, the two influential coal traders who were arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials on Tuesday in connection with the multi-crore coal smuggling case in West Bengal, were remanded to ED custody till February 18 by a special court of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in Kolkata.Mondal is the maternal uncle of Khan. Both have been involved in coal trading for quite some time. However, the investigating officials of ED h…

Kolkata, Jan 20 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has intensified its probe into the multi-crore coal smuggling case in West Bengal, summoning seven more coal traders for questioning, sources in the central agency said on Tuesday.With this, the total number of coal traders summoned in the case has risen to 15. The fresh summons came in the aftermath of the controversy surrounding the ED’s simultaneous search operations at the office of the Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) and th…