ED summons wife, brother of I-PAC director Pratik Jain in money laundering probe

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has summoned the wife and brother of Pratik Jain, the co-founder and director of political consultancy firm I-PAC, for questioning in a money laundering case linked to alleged hawala transactions, officials said on Tuesday.

Barbie Jain and Pulkit Jain have been asked to depose before the federal probe agency at its headquarters here on Wednesday. They will be questioned under provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), the officials said.

Business links of the two are under the ED scanner, they said, without elaborating further.


I-PAC is the political consultancy assisting the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal.

The ED had on Monday arrested another I-PAC co-founder and director, Vinesh Chandel, as part of the investigation, which is also "linked" to an alleged coal scam case in poll-bound West Bengal.

Pratik Jain was also summoned by the ED in the money laundering case related to hawala transactions. The agency had filed a criminal case on March 28, based on an FIR filed by the Delhi Police.

Pratik Jain has approached the Delhi High Court against the summons.

The ED had raided Pratik Jain's residence and the I-PAC office in Kolkata in January.