WHO IS RAJA KANDOLA?
Wanted in at least seven cases of drug smuggling in Delhi and Punjab, Raja Kandola is a native of Haipowal village of Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar (Nawanshahr) district. Police said Kandola shifted to the UK in the late 1990s and became rich overnight after he took to drug trade. In India, he was allegedly running a racket manufacturing ‘Ice’ (a party drug) and was getting heroin supplies from Pakistan to smuggle to Delhi and abroad.
The ED has attached many of his properties in Punjab, the UK and the USA in cases of money laundering. In Delhi, as per police records, he was running a racket through his alleged girlfriend Vania Khanna who was sentenced to 10-year imprisonment by a Hoshiarpur court in a case of drugs. Kandola escaped from police custody in September 2015 but was rearrested from Rajasthan. Kandola’s wife, Rajwant Kaur, and son, Bally Singh, have also been booked by the ED under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
There are questions like who bought Kandola’s house in California, after he landed in police net? AN ENFORCEMENT DIRECTORATE OFFICIAL