Sonia Gandhi appears before ED for second round of questioning in money laundering case
Kairi brown
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Sonia Gandhi appears before ED for second round of questioning in money laundering case
President Sonia Congress Gandhi on Tuesday appeared before the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) for the second round of his question in the case of money laundering related to the National Herald newspaper.
He reached the Federal Agent’s office in Vidyut Lane flanking Jalan APJ Abdul Kalam in Delhi in the middle around 11 am accompanied by his children Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
While Priyanka Gandhi lived in the ED office, Rahul Gandhi left immediately after that. The 75 -year -old Gandhi was questioned for more than two hours during his first day asking in the case on July 21 where he answered 28 questions asked by the agency.
The question is related to alleged financial deviations in Young Indian Private Limited which was promoted by the Congress, which has a National New Herald newspaper.
Officials said that all protocols in accordance with Covid had been applied to high profile sessions such as the placement of doctors and ambulances, ‘Covid Negative’ certificates from investigators and the right physical distance between Gandhi and the investigation team.
The congress has slammed the agency’s actions against its peak leadership and call it “political revenge”. Delhi’s police deployed large troops, including CRPF and RAF personnel, and barricades all of more than one kilometer between his residence and ED office. Traffic restrictions are also applied in the area.
Rahul Gandhi was also questioned by the ER in this case last month in a session that recorded more than 50 hours for five days. The step to question that Gandhis was initiated after the ER at the end of last year registered a new case based on the criminal provisions of the money laundering law.
This happened after the court here was aware of the investigation of the Income Tax Department to the young Indians based on private criminal complaints by BJP MPs Subramanian Swamy in 2013. Sonia and Rahul Gandhi were one of the promoters and majority shareholders in India Muda. Like his son, the president of the congress also has 38 percent share ownership.
Swamy has accused Gandhis and the others conspiring of deceiving and abusing funds, with young Indians only paying RS 50 Lakh to get the right to restore the 90.25 Crore Hospital associated with a limited journal to the congress. In February last year, the Delhi High Court issued a notification to Gandhis who asked for their response to Swamy’s request.
The leaders of the Mallikarjun Congress Karge and Pawan Bansal were questioned by the ER in this case in April. The congress has stated that there are no mistakes and young India is a “non-profit” company established based on section 25 of the company law and therefore there is no question about money laundering.
It can be understood that Rahul Gandhi, during the deposition before the ER, was trapped in the position that there was no personal acquisition of assets by himself or his family.
According to the ER, assets worth around RS 800 Crore “owned” by Ajl and the agency curious from Gandhis how non -profit companies such as Young Indian do commercial activities to rent out assets and build their assets.
