Gurgaon: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday questioned Congress General Secretary and LS MP Priyanka Gandhi’s businessman-husband-husband. Light hospitality In 2008, it was built for Rs 7.5 crore.
Vadra, who missed his first summons on 8 April, went to the Ed office at 11 am and quizzed in two sessions with a lunch break on his association with the land deal, which gave him a beautiful comeback of Rs 50 crore in a few months terms. His inquiry will continue on Wednesday.
This is a new case that is still in progress related to other land deals in Haryana and Rajasthan with two other money laundering investigation against the Vadra. In the current case, Vadra’s firm, Skylight Hospitality, in 2008, purchased from Omkareshwar Properties in Shikohpur (Haryana) for Rs 7.5 crore on 3.5 acres. Under the then CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda, the Congress government in the state gave commercial licenses for 2.7 acres shortly after. Four months later, the land was sold to DLF for a rate of about eight times – Rs 58 crore – a profit of more than Rs 50 crore. Vadra slammed Ed’s move as an attempt to thwart ‘attempt to enter politics and prevent people from increasing issues.
Action came soon after issuing notices of Ed to take over land of more than Rs 750 crore and buildings of the buildings of more than Rs 750 crore in the National Herald Money Laundering case. The agency then filed a charge sheet in the National Herald case, where it has made seven persons and institutions as accused, including former Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. The court has decided on 25 April as the date of the next hearing to take cognizance of the charge sheet.
On the way to the Ed office, Wadra said that action against him was “politically motivated”. He said, “I am not going to be afraid of it. They can ask me many questions. I will answer them all. I have nothing to hide,” he said, “he said,” Whenever I try to raise people’s voice or talk about entering politics, this government uses these agencies to suppress me.
Vadra’s land deal in Shikohpur drew national attention in 2012 when Director of Land Registration in Haryana, IAS officer Ashok Khemka, canceled land mutation citing procedural irregularities. The state moved Khemka within hours, increasing the eyebrows. But before renouncing the charge, Khemka submitted a report, separating the mutation and questioned the authority of the officer who approved it. In 2013, a three -member IAS panel formed by the then Huda government gave a clean chit to both Vadra and DLF.
The BJP government later, which assumed the rank in 2014, formed the Justice Dhingra Commission, which presented a confidential report. Hooda transferred HC against the formation of the commission in 2016. Two years later, the Haryana Police filed an FIR against Vadra, Hooda, DLF and Onakareshwar properties, cheating, criminal conspiracy and forgery. Ed launched an investigation under the PMLA.
