New Delhi, July 12: RJD MP Misa Bharti's husband Shailesh Kumar was today grilled for over eight hours by sleuths of Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with a Rs 8,000-crore money laundering case, officials said.

Bharti, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav's daughter, had appeared before the central probe agency yesterday and was grilled for about eight hours. Shailesh, who was summoned today after he skipped the first date on Monday, was confronted with the documents seized by the ED in the case and the statements given by his wife in relation to their finances and business transactions, officials said on the condition of anonymity.

His statement was recorded under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). He remained in the ED office for questioning for over eight hours. Like his wife, Shailesh too was questioned about his role in a firm, M/s Mishail Printers and Packers Private Limited, his other finances and his links with a chartered accountant arrested by the agency earlier in the case, they said.

The ED had on July 8 conducted searches at three Delhi farmhouses of Misa, Shailesh and the firm.

The raids had come a day after the CBI raided multiple premises of Prasad and his family in a corruption case probe. The latest summons to Misa and her husband are related to a Rs 8,000-crore money laundering probe being conducted by the agency against two Delhi-based businessmen brothers, Surendra Kumar Jain and Virendra Jain, and others who are alleged to have laundered several crore rupees using over 90 shell companies.