ED SUMMONS VADRA IN MONEY LAUNDERING CASE
New Delhi, Nov. 30: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned Robert Vadra, brother-inlaw of Congress president Rahul Gandhi, in connection with its money laundering probe in a land scam case in Rajasthan’s border city of Bikaner, officials said on Friday.
New Delhi, Nov. 30: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned Robert Vadra, brother-inlaw of Congress president Rahul Gandhi, in connection with its money laundering probe in a land scam case in Rajasthan’s border city of Bikaner, officials said Friday.
They added that Vadra was asked to appear before the investigating officer of the case next week and this was the second summons issued to him for recording his statement under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
The officials said that as Vadra did not appear before the investigating officer when the first summons was issued earlier in November, the second summons was issued to him.
The central probe agency had registered a criminal case in connection with the deal in 2015, taking cognisance of a clutch of FIRs and chargesheets filed by the Rajasthan police after the local tehsildar of Bikaner complained about alleged forgery in the allotment of land in the area, considered sensitive due to its proximity to the Indo-Pak border.
The ED, it is understood, wants to grill Vadra about the operations of a firm — Ms Skylight Hospitality Private Limited — allegedly linked to him, which had purchased land in the area. It also wants to confront Vadra with the statements of those said to be linked to him. —PTI