New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED), which is probing Rs 8,000 crore money laundering case involving Misa Bharti and her husband Shailesh Kumar, is all set to seek clarifications from other officials of the four private firms, who are also suspect in the case.

Sources said, “Role of the senior officials of four private firms — M/s Shalini Holdings Limited, M/s Ad-Fin Capital Services (India) Pvt. Ltd, M/s Mani Mala Delhi Properties Pvt. Ltd., and M/s Diamond Vinimay Pvt. Ltd — are also being probed by the ED in connection with the case”. The agency will soon seek clarifications from the senior officials of these firms. “It is suspected that Rajesh Aggarwal, a Chartered Accountant who is in judicial custody,  is linked to Bharti and he provided accommodation entries (black funds) of about Rs 60 lakh to M/s Mishail Printers and Packers Private Limited. Bharti and her husband are alleged to have been directors of this firm in the past. During investigation, the agency sleuths detected that 1,20,000 shares of M/s Mishail Printers and Packers Private Limited were bought during 2007-08 at a rate of Rs 100 per share by four shell companies—M/s Shalini Holdings Limited, M/s Ad-Fin Capital Services (India) Pvt. Ltd, M/s Mani Mala Delhi Properties Pvt. Ltd., and M/s Diamond Vinimay Pvt. Ltd. These 1,20,000 shares were allegedly bought back by Bharti at Rs 10 per share,” sources said.