ED freezes 2,500 bank accounts of Rose Valley

The Enforcement Directorate today froze around 2,500 bank accounts of Rose Valley which has been under the scanner of the agency for some time.
"We have frozen 2,500 accounts of Rose Valley today as the department is probing charges of money laundering by the company under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act," an ED official of Kolkata region told PTI.
The directorate had earlier interrogated the managing director of Rose Valley, Shibomoy Dutta, as part of the probe.
Rose Valley has interests in real estate, hospitality, travel and tourism, media and jewellery. The company was also one of the key sponsors of an IPL team.

Meanwhile, Rose Valley in a statement said the ED had sealed more than 2,500 of its bank accounts which include the salary accounts of more than 10,000 employees of the company.
It said that Rose Valley chairman Gautam Kundu had visited the ED office today, and was not summoned. He had gone to request senior ED officer Manoj Kumar not to freeze the salary accounts of his employees so that more than 10,000 employees are not left deprived of their salaries just before Durga puja.
He has been asked to submit a requisition for the same by the ED officer. Kundu assured the officer that if required he will appear before the ED if it summons him to do so, the statement added.