GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 16th March. Reacting sharply to the FATF report titled ‘Money Laundering & Terrorist Financing in the Art and Antiquities Market’, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur said, “Till now the media and people used to discuss the Financial Action Task Force i.e. FATF only for the fact that whether Pakistan will remain in the grey list or will go even further. Now the same FATF is being discussed again in the context of an influential family of the country.”
Thakur said, “One after another, new models of Congress’s corruption are coming to the fore. Sometimes it is National Herald, sometimes Vadra land scam, sometimes some other. Now FATF has published a case study that shows how a former Union Minister in the UPA government pressured an individual into buying Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s average painting at Rs. 2 crores.
“It is a matter of great shame that the story of corruption of the Gandhi family is made into a case study and being told to the whole world, that too by an organization that works to stop terror financing.” Anurag Thakur said.
The FATF report mentions the case of Yes Bank and Priyanka Vadra. It charts the details of wrong means taken to serve one’s own interests by buying/selling art of average value.
Posing direct questions to Priyanka Gandhi, Anurag Thakur said, “Priyanka Gandhi ji must tell whether this pressure was created or not & who is this Mr. R who took money and gave the painting? Is he in the country or abroad?
Furthering the list of scathing questions the Union Minister said, “Was Padma Bhushan being given in exchange of money & painting? Is this a corruption model of Congress? How many other national honors have you sold for money?
Referring to other scams related to the Congress, the Union Minister said, “The current case is a matter of serious embarrassment for the Gandhi family. But they will not even apologise. They will retract by saying that our name is not in this report. Then what is the truth? Priyanka Gandhi must come out and answer these questions. The day is near when all their scams will be exposed, and the Indian courts will punish them.”
About the case: The ED is probing the money laundering case involving Yes Bank. Yes Bank founder Rana Kapoor is accused of abusing his position and favoring his family. In this case, the CBI had registered a case of cheating and criminal conspiracy in March 2020.
According to the ED’s charge sheet, Rana Kapoor said that he was forced to buy a painting from Priyanka Gandhi for Rs 2 crore. This painting was of MF Hussain. Rana Kapoor claimed that he had paid a cheque of Rs 2 crore for the painting.
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