Representative of PR company summoned in QNet case

MUMBAI: The EOW summoned the representative of a PR firm and sought details about the services it has been providing to QNet, a marketing firm involved in an alleged Rs 425 crore cheating case. Meanwhile, the police have written to a bank in Fort to freeze the PR firm’s account.
The police said they will also summon other PR companies that worked for QNet in the past.
An EOW source said the representative has said that the PR firm had entered into a contract with QNet in January to act as a coordinator between the media and the marketing company. “We have asked the PR firm to furnish the contract copy, details of QNet officials who had approached it and bank payment details,” said an officer. But, the officer added, the EOW is not satisfied and has summoned the representative again.
The cops have written to the bank under section 91 and 102 of CrPC and Section 4 of the Bankers Books Evidence Act, 1891, to freeze the account belonging to the PR firm. “We suspect the money used to pay the PR firm was earned by QNet through the proceeds of crime. Till date, 10 people have been arrested in this case,” said Rajvardhan Sinha, additional commissioner.
The PR firm, in its statement to TOI, said, “Our relationship with QNet is purely that of a client and a consultancy. Like any PR constancy, we are just doing our professional job to coordinate flow of information from the company to the media and attending media queries on QNet. As part of their investigation, the police inquired with us on the nature of our association with QNet and we informed them of the same.”