ED Raids I-PAC Office in Kolkata, Searches Head

• ED searches I-PAC, Pratik Jain (TMC IT head) in Kolkata for money laundering.
• Mamata Banerjee condemns the ED action, visits Jain's residence.
• I-PAC, founded by Prashant Kishor, worked with TMC after 2019 elections.

New Delhi/Kolkata, Jan 8 (PTI) The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday conducted searches on the premises of political consultancy firm I-PAC and its director Pratik Jain in Kolkata as part of a money

laundering investigation, official sources said.

Jain is the co-founder of the Indian Political Action Committee, or I-PAC, they said. He is also the head of the IT cell of the Trinamool Congress, the ruling party in West Bengal.

Some other premises are also being searched by the agency, the sources said.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, meanwhile, reached the residence of Jain and condemned the ED action.

I-PAC was founded by political strategist Prashant Kishor ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

The consultancy firm worked with the Trinamool Congress and the West Bengal government after the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. PTI NES PNT ARI