Srinagar/IBNS: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned National Conference leader and MP Farooq Abdullah in connection with alleged financial irregularities in the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association.

With this, Abdullah became the latest opposition leader to be summoned by the central probe agency.

This comes when Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren faces summons in a money-laundering case linked to an alleged land scam while his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal, who has skipped three summons, faces a probe by the agency in connection with a Delhi liquor policy case.

All three leaders are part of the INDIA bloc.

The summon has directed Abdullah to depose at the ED office in Srinagar.

The 86-year-old MP from Srinagar Lok Sabha seat was named in a charge sheet by the probe agency, in a 2022 case.

The case involves the siphoning of funds belonging to the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association, which were transferred to the personal bank accounts of various people including the office bearers of the cricket association.

The agency started a money laundering investigation based on a chargesheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against office bearers of the association.

The allegations against  Abdullah state that he "misused" his position as the president of the association and made appointments in the sports body so that the BCCI-sponsored funds could be laundered.

Abdullah was the JKCA president from 2001 to 2012.

The alleged scam, which is being investigated both by the CBI and the ED, apparently took place between 2004 and 2009.