The Enforcement Directorate (ED) summoned Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for Fifth time for else round of Questioning on The investigation agency said on June 21 on Monday.
Rahul has been interrogated for the fourth day on Monday by ED in Connection with National Herald case. He had been called earlier on Friday but he asked for an exemption and then he was summoned on Monday.
Sources said Rahul arrived at the emergency department office Around 11 am he was interrogated until late in Evening. Sources said while the agency believes so need to summon Rahul again on Tuesday, the congresswoman had asked the agency finish Early interrogations possible Because it needs care of for him mother Sonya, who He suffers from COVID-19 infection. Sonya, too, was called for Interrogation by the agency on June 23.
ED summoned Rahul last Monday and questioned for Three consecutive days. Sources said Rahul is being questioned about the property of Young Indian (YI) by Gandhi family and its share in Associate Journal Limited (AJL), the company that runs National Herald. He is questioned about the circumstances under which Young Indian has acquired AJL in 2010 for “low pay” which makes it in turn owner of All assets Owned by the National Herald.
ED status based on A court order allowing the Income Tax Department to investigate affairs of The National Herald and conduct a tax assessment of Sonya and Rahul. was the order result of Petition filed by MP Subramanian Swami of the BJP in 2013.
Swami’s complaint alleging fraud and embezzlement of funds on part of Gandhi in Get the newspaper. Swami alleged that the Gandhi family acquired real estate owned by the National Herald by buying the paper’s former publishers, AJL, through an organization called Young Indian in of which they have a 76 per cent stake. Sonia and Rahul have been released on bail in The case before the Court of First Instance on December 19, 2015.
In Swami’s complaint before the Court of First Instance, Sonia, Rahul and others were charged of embezzlement of funds by paying 50 thousand rupees for Young Indian (YI) for the right to redeem Rs 90.25 crore owed by AJL to Congress.
It was claimed that YI, which was founded in November 2010 with capital of 50 lakh rupees, acquired almost all shares of AJL, which ran the National Herald. The IT department had claimed that shares owned by Rahul in I will lead has an income of 154 crore and not about Rs 68 thousand, as assessed earlier. she has already issued demand Notice for 249.15 Crores Rupees to YI for Evaluation year 2011-12.
Earlier, ED started a file money laundering probe against AJL in 2018 in Connection with The plot of land allocated to it in Panchkula Haryana by the then chief minister Bhubindar Singh Hooda. An emergency official was attached to the plot, accusing the company of Obtained “by fraud”. Hoda is accused in The money laundering The case is registered by the agency in Subject.
ED status based on A court order allowing the Income Tax Department to investigate affairs of The National Herald and conduct a tax assessment of Sonya and Rahul. was the order result of Petition filed by MP Subramanian Swami of the BJP in 2013.
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