Shillong, May 11: Deputy Chief Minister in-charge Power, Prestone Tynsong, on Wednesday referred to the alleged raids by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) at the Meghalaya Energy Corporation Limited (MeECL) headquarters and seized documents related to the Saubhagya scheme as totally wrong and baseless.

“I would like to clarify that the statement carried in the newspaper in fact was totally wrong, baseless and illogical. The statement was not at all acceptable as there were no such raids and no such seizure of documents made from the office of the MeECL,” Tynsong told reporters in response to a query on the matter.

“On being contacted yesterday (by the concerned newspaper), the Chairman-cum-Managing Director (CMD) of MeECL had already clarified (on the allegation) – so the question of raids does not arise,” he further added.

Tynsong however admitted that an official communication has taken place between the ED and the office of the MeECL in October-November 2021 and said the ED officials had sought clarification and requested for necessary documents to which the MeECL had also complied and furnished all required information needed by the ED.

“Again, just the day before yesterday, we have submitted a few more clarifications and few more documents to the ED – so the question of raids, the question of seizure does not arise at all,” he informed.

According to him, people should understand that there is no criminal activity in the MeECL and that the MeECL has to furnish information required by such agencies and it is up to them to study the papers.

When asked about the clarification sought by the ED from the MeECL, the deputy chief minister said, “I cannot say right now, what is the necessity for the ED to call on those documents as we have done our jobs and we leave it to the ED,” while asserting “I will not be able to detail everything because when they want any documents be it tender documents, be it tender agreements, be it tender papers whatever required as sought by, we already furnished to the ED.”

Tynsong said be it any agency in case they receive any complaints, they accordingly write a letter to the concerned department or corporation seeking the clarification for going deeper into the matter.

He said the CAG report was also part of the required information by the ED officials.

“Therefore, any information relating to any documents be it tender documents, tender agreements, even the CAG report that has been furnished to the office of the ED. I don’t know till now also whether some more documents, some more papers I really don’t know yet but this process has started from 2021,” the deputy chief minister added.