NEW DELHI: Robert Vadra, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's brother-in-law, appeared sooner than the Enforcement Directorate for the second day on Thursday in connection with a probe into allegations that he laundered cash to purchase unlawful foreign assets.
Vadra, who was once grilled for five-and-a part hours for the first time within the case on Wednesday, arrived on the ED place of work in Jamnagar House in central Delhi at about 11:25 am, about an hour after his staff of lawyers.
Officials said Vadra was once required to rejoin the probe on Thursday as he needed to answer extra questions on allegedly obtaining immovable assets in United Kingdom.
His commentary will be recorded under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) as was once achieved Wednesday, they added.
He was once requested about a dozen questions by a staff of 3 ED officials, together with the investigating officer of the case.
His look sooner than the ED on Wednesday obtained political overtones along with his wife Priyanka Gandhi, appointed Congress common secretary in-charge of japanese Uttar Pradesh, accompanying him to the investigating agency's place of work. She took price of her new publish on the Congress' national headquarters on Akbar Road after that.
"He is my husband, he is my family ... I support my family," Priyanka Gandhi said in a show of beef up to Vadra, who returned from London on Wednesday.
This is the first time that Vadra is showing sooner than any probe agency in connection with alleged doubtful financial dealings.
On February 2, he was once directed by a Delhi court to look sooner than the central probe agency and cooperate within the probe after he knocked at its door in search of anticipatory bail within the cash laundering case.
Vadra has denied the allegations of possessing unlawful foreign assets and termed them a political witch hunt against him. He said he was once being "hounded and harassed" to subserve political ends.
His lawyer said Wednesday evening that Vadra had answered to each query put to him.
"All charges against him are wrong. We will cooperate with the agency 100 per cent. He will come whenever he is called," lawyer Suman Jyoti Khaitan told journalists.
The ED case against Vadra relates to allegations of money laundering within the acquire of a London-based property located at 12, Bryanston Square value 1.9 million GBP (British pounds), which is allegedly owned by him.
The agency additionally told the court that it has won information about various new properties in London which belong to Vadra. These come with two houses, one value five million GBP and the opposite four million GBP, six different residences and extra properties.
In December closing 12 months, the ED conducted raids within the case and grilled his shut aide Manoj Arora, an employee of Skylight Hospitality LLP, a company related to Vadra, in addition to others.
The agency told the court that it filed a PMLA case against Arora after his position cropped up throughout the probe of every other case by the Income Tax Department under the 2015 anti-black cash law against absconding defence broker Sanjay Bhandari.
It alleged that the London-based property was once bought by Bhandari for 1.9 million GBP and offered in 2010 for the same quantity despite incurring further expenses of approximately 65,900 GBP on its renovation.
The BJP seized at the questioning of Vadra on Wednesday to assault the Congress and alleged he got kickbacks from a petroleum and defence offers happened throughout the UPA regime.
Vadra is also meant to be present sooner than the ED on February 12 in Jaipur in every other cash laundering case associated with a land scam in Bikaner. The Rajasthan high court had directed him to cooperate with the agency within the case.
Vadra, who was once grilled for five-and-a part hours for the first time within the case on Wednesday, arrived on the ED place of work in Jamnagar House in central Delhi at about 11:25 am, about an hour after his staff of lawyers.
Officials said Vadra was once required to rejoin the probe on Thursday as he needed to answer extra questions on allegedly obtaining immovable assets in United Kingdom.
His commentary will be recorded under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) as was once achieved Wednesday, they added.
He was once requested about a dozen questions by a staff of 3 ED officials, together with the investigating officer of the case.
His look sooner than the ED on Wednesday obtained political overtones along with his wife Priyanka Gandhi, appointed Congress common secretary in-charge of japanese Uttar Pradesh, accompanying him to the investigating agency's place of work. She took price of her new publish on the Congress' national headquarters on Akbar Road after that.
"He is my husband, he is my family ... I support my family," Priyanka Gandhi said in a show of beef up to Vadra, who returned from London on Wednesday.
This is the first time that Vadra is showing sooner than any probe agency in connection with alleged doubtful financial dealings.
On February 2, he was once directed by a Delhi court to look sooner than the central probe agency and cooperate within the probe after he knocked at its door in search of anticipatory bail within the cash laundering case.
Vadra has denied the allegations of possessing unlawful foreign assets and termed them a political witch hunt against him. He said he was once being "hounded and harassed" to subserve political ends.
His lawyer said Wednesday evening that Vadra had answered to each query put to him.
"All charges against him are wrong. We will cooperate with the agency 100 per cent. He will come whenever he is called," lawyer Suman Jyoti Khaitan told journalists.
The ED case against Vadra relates to allegations of money laundering within the acquire of a London-based property located at 12, Bryanston Square value 1.9 million GBP (British pounds), which is allegedly owned by him.
The agency additionally told the court that it has won information about various new properties in London which belong to Vadra. These come with two houses, one value five million GBP and the opposite four million GBP, six different residences and extra properties.
In December closing 12 months, the ED conducted raids within the case and grilled his shut aide Manoj Arora, an employee of Skylight Hospitality LLP, a company related to Vadra, in addition to others.
The agency told the court that it filed a PMLA case against Arora after his position cropped up throughout the probe of every other case by the Income Tax Department under the 2015 anti-black cash law against absconding defence broker Sanjay Bhandari.
It alleged that the London-based property was once bought by Bhandari for 1.9 million GBP and offered in 2010 for the same quantity despite incurring further expenses of approximately 65,900 GBP on its renovation.
The BJP seized at the questioning of Vadra on Wednesday to assault the Congress and alleged he got kickbacks from a petroleum and defence offers happened throughout the UPA regime.
Vadra is also meant to be present sooner than the ED on February 12 in Jaipur in every other cash laundering case associated with a land scam in Bikaner. The Rajasthan high court had directed him to cooperate with the agency within the case.
Vadra appears before ED for another day of questioning in money laundering probe
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