GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 1st June. Congress president Sonia Gandhi will join the Enforcement Directorate probe into the National Herald case on June 8.
The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday summoned Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi over the National Herald case, which was closed by the investigating agency in 2015.
Updating media, Congress General Secretary Randeep Surjewala said, “Started the National Herald newspaper in 1942, at that time the British tried to suppress it, today Modi govt is also doing the same and ED is being used for this. ED has given notice to our president Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.”
Congress’ Abhishek Singhvi said, “Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi will go to ED office on June 8.”
The Enforcement Directorate’s move followed the questioning of Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge and Congress Treasurer Pawan Bansal in April this year in New Delhi in connection with its money laundering investigation into the National Herald case.
The ED then recorded the testimonials of both the Congress leaders then under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
The National Herald is published by Associated Journals Limited (AJL) and owned by Young Indian Pvt Limited (YIL). While Mallikarjun Kharge is the CEO of YIL, Pawan Bansal is the Managing Director (MD) of AJL.
The Enforcement Directorate is currently probing the shareholding pattern and financial transactions as well as role of party functionaries in the functioning of AJL and YIL. The YIL promoters include Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.
The Bharatiya Janata Party MP Subramanian Swamy had alleged that the Gandhis cheated and misappropriated funds, with YIL paying only Rs 50 lakh to obtain the right to recover Rs 90.25 crore that AJL owed to the Congress.
Swamy had registered a complaint with a Delhi court earlier. Following the court taking cognizance of an Income Tax Department investigation against YIL on Subramanian Swamy’s petition, the Enforcement Directorate also registered a fresh case under Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
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