The Enforcement Directorate has registered a money laundering case in the Narada 'sting' where a number of Trinamool Congress leaders, including MPs and ministers, were allegedly seen on camera taking money.

The agency, officials said, has registered the case under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act after studying a Central Bureau of Investigation FIR.

It will probe the 'proceeds of crime' generated in this case and soon summonses would be issued to the accused for questioning, they said.

While the CBI's criminal FIR had been registered against12 TMC leaders and an IPS officer, the ED's FIR, called Enforcement Case Information Report, has been booked against 14 entities that includes a category of unknown persons apart from the 13 in the CBI compliant, they said.

The sting operation pertains to the secret filming of the TMC leaders and the IPS officer while they allegedly accepted money from the representatives of a fictitious company for extending favours to it.

The TMC leaders against whom the CBI has registered the FIR, now also booked by the ED, include Rajya Sabha MP Mukul Roy, Lok Sabha MPs -- Saugata Roy, Aparupa Poddar, Sultan Ahmed,Prasun Banerjee and Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar.

West Bengal ministers including Urban Development Minister Firhad Hakim, Transport Minister Suvendu Adhikari,Environment Minister Sovan Chatterjee, Panchayati Raj andRural Development Minister Subrata Mukherjee have also been named in the FIR.

Former Minister Madan Mitra, MLA Iqbal Ahmed and IPS officer Saiyaad Mustafa Hussain Mirza have also been made accused in the case.

The Calcutta high court today directed the CBI to continue with its probe into the sting operation case.  -- PTI