RJD MP Misa Bharti's husband Shailesh Kumar appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in New Delhi on 12 July, in connection with a Rs 8,000 crore money laundering case.
Bharti, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav's daughter, was questioned for nearly seven hours when she appeared before the central probe agency on Tuesday.
Kuma will be confronted with the documents seized by the ED in the case and the statements given by his wife in relation to their finances and business transactions, officials said on the condition of anonymity.
He was summoned on Tuesday after he failed to keep his scheduled appearance before the ED on Monday.
The couple is being probed under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
Officials said that like Bharti, her husband was questioned about her role in relation to a firm, M/s Mishail Printers and Packers Private Limited, and her other finances and links with a CA professional who was arrested by the agency earlier.
The ED on 8 July had conducted searches at three Delhi farmhouses of Bharti, and properties of Kumar, and the firm, a day after the CBI raided multiple premises of Lalu Prasad Yadav and his family in a corruption case probe.
The latest summons to Bharti and her husband are related to a Rs 8,000 crore money laundering probe by the agency against two Delhi-based businessmen brothers, Surendra Kumar Jain and Virendra Jain, and others who are alleged to have laundered several crore rupees using over 90 shell companies.The Jain brothers have been arrested by the ED under the PMLA.
One of the firms that the arrested duo dealt with was M/s Mishail Printers and Packers Private Limited.
Bharti and her husband are alleged to have been directors of this firm in the past.
The ED had also arrested Rajesh Agarwal, a Chartered Accountant, who allegedly provided accommodation entries (black funds) of about Rs 60 lakh to M/s Mishail Printers and Packers Private Limited.
The searches, they had said, are part of investigations to unravel these links which allegedly routed black money using the shell companies in question.
The ED is the third agency probing alleged financial irregularities by Lalu Prasad Yadav’s family, after the CBI and the Income Tax department which recently attached benami assets worth about Rs 180 crore (market value) in its investigation against them.
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