MP Satabdi Roy keen to return cash

Trinamul Congress MP Satabdi Roy has written to the Enforcement Directorate, saying she would like to return Rs 29 lakh that she had received from Saradha as part of a contract with the fund mobilising firm.

Roy has been interrogated by central investigating agencies in connection with Saradha and Rose Valley cases and ED sleuths said they were verifying the amount she had mentioned in her letter.

In 2015, former Trinamul Rajya Sabha member Mithun Chakraborty had returned the money he had received from Saradha. Chakraborty returned over Rs 1.19 crore to the ED through a bank draft.

The ED had summoned Roy for questioning, but she didn’t turn up.