American billionaire businessman Neville Roy Singham and senior Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Prakash Karat are under the scanner of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) as part of its money laundering probe against news portal ‘NewsClick’. Email exchange is also included. Official sources gave this information on Thursday.
‘NewsClick’ is alleged to have received money from Singham to promote Chinese interests. The ED is also probing the alleged transfer of around Rs 40 lakh from ‘Newsclick’ to family members of activist Teesta Setalvad, transfer of around Rs 72 lakh to journalist and author Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, some employees of ‘Newsclick’ and some other media persons. Is..
