<p class="title">The CBI on Wednesday interrogated Narada News portal CEO Mathew Samuel in connection with a sting operation he claimed to have carried out five years ago, agency sources said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In the tapes that surfaced in 2016, ahead of Bengal assembly polls, persons resembling senior Trinamool Congress leaders and IPS officer are seen accepting money from representatives of a fictitious company in return for favours.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Samuel, who had been questioned by the agency on earlier occasions, too, appeared before the CBI on Monday afternoon at its Nizam Palace office, the sources said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) made its first arrest in the case last month, when it apprehended IPS officer SMH Mirza, who is currently in judicial custody.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Prominent TMC leaders and ministers, including Subrata Mukherjee, Subhendu Adhikary, and Sougata Roy, and senior BJP leader Mukul Roy, who quit the Mamata Banerjee-led party two years ago, have also been quizzed by the probe agency over the past few weeks in the case.</p>
<p class="title">The CBI on Wednesday interrogated Narada News portal CEO Mathew Samuel in connection with a sting operation he claimed to have carried out five years ago, agency sources said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In the tapes that surfaced in 2016, ahead of Bengal assembly polls, persons resembling senior Trinamool Congress leaders and IPS officer are seen accepting money from representatives of a fictitious company in return for favours.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Samuel, who had been questioned by the agency on earlier occasions, too, appeared before the CBI on Monday afternoon at its Nizam Palace office, the sources said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) made its first arrest in the case last month, when it apprehended IPS officer SMH Mirza, who is currently in judicial custody.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Prominent TMC leaders and ministers, including Subrata Mukherjee, Subhendu Adhikary, and Sougata Roy, and senior BJP leader Mukul Roy, who quit the Mamata Banerjee-led party two years ago, have also been quizzed by the probe agency over the past few weeks in the case.</p>