New Delhi, Apr 20 (PTI) A legal representative of Rishi Raj Singh, a director of political consultancy firm I-PAC, on Monday appeared before the Enforcement Directorate in Delhi for assisting the agency in taking a dump of certain electronic gadgets seized from the premises of the executive during recent raids, officials said.

The company, established in 2015, provides political consultancy to a number of political outfits including to the parties in power in two poll-bound states -- TMC in West Bengal and DMK in Tamil Nadu. It has three founding directors including Singh, Vinesh Chandel, who was arrested by the ED recently, and Pratik Jain.

The officials said an authorised representative of Singh appeared on his behalf before the investigating officer of the case to assist him in taking a dump (evidence) from certain electronic gadgets seized from the premises of the executive during raids conducted against him on April 2.

The federal probe agency had arrested Chandel in this case after his questioning in Delhi on April 13. He is currently in ED custody.

The probe stems from a Delhi Police FIR against the Indian PAC Consulting Pvt Ltd (I-PAC) on charges of falsification of accounts and handling of unaccounted funds through its directors among others.

The ED earlier said it has come across "multiple" instances of alleged financial irregularities and various modes of "money laundering" by I-PAC, including receipt of accounted and unaccounted funds, receipt of unsecured loans without any business credentials, issuance of bogus bills and invoices, receipt of funds from third parties and movement of cash through hawala channels.

It claimed I-PAC was involved in laundering about Rs 50 crore proceeds of crime. This case is "linked" to the coal "scam" probe, the officials said.

Jain's premises and I-PAC's office in Kolkata were raided by the ED on January 8 in the coal "scam" case and the action courted controversy after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee reached these premises and took away certain documents claiming the ED was trying to take away its election strategy-related documents.

The ED has approached the Calcutta High Court and the Supreme Court claiming "gross abuse of power" by the chief minister as it sought a CBI probe into this incident. PTI NES KSS KSS

Money laundering probe over alleged unaccounted funds, bogus invoices and hawala channels linked to a consultancy firm investigation. A legal representative appeared before the Enforcement Directorate to assist in extracting data from seized electronic gadgets in a case involving alleged falsification of accounts, unaccounted funds, bogus invoices, hawala transfers and money laundering. The probe stems from a police FIR against the consultancy company and is linked to a separate coal-related investigation.