ED questions Robert Vadra for 5 hours for second straight day in money laundering case

The Enforcement Directorate questioned Robert Vadra, businessman and husband of Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, for the second straight day on Wednesday in a money laundering case.

 

Vadra reached the office along with Priyanka Gandhi around 11 am. According to reports, the questioning lasted for around five hours and Vadra left the ED office after 6 pm.

 

Priyanka Gandhi, who represents Kerala's Wayanad, stayed in the visitors' room of the agency's office 'Pravartan Bhawan' at the APJ Abdul Kalam Road throughout the grilling session.

 

He has been called again on Thursday for further questioning. The central agency had interrogated him on Tuesday and confronted him with about a dozen questions.

 

After the questioning, Vadra told news agency PTI that he was being "targeted" by probe agencies as he is part of the Gandhi family. He also termed the ED action as a "political vendetta".

 

What's the case about?

 

A company named Skylight Hospitality Pvt Ltd, where Vadra was a director earlier, purchased a 3.5 acre of land in Shikohpur in Haryana from Onkareshwar Properties at a price of Rs 7.5 crore in 2008. A Congress government led by Bhupinder Singh Hooda was in power at that time.

 

In 2012, the company sold the land to realty major DLF for Rs 58 crore.

 

Later that year, the Land Records-cum-Inspector-General of Registration of Haryana cancelled the mutation of this categorising the transaction as violative of state consolidation Act and some related procedures.

 

Haryana Police had filed an FIR to probe this deal in 2018.

 

 

 

 

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