National Herald case: ED points contemporary summons to Rahul Gandhi for June 13

By PTI

NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued a contemporary summon to Congress MP Rahul Gandhi to look earlier than it on June 13 for questioning in a cash laundering case linked to the National Herald newspaper, officers mentioned on Friday.

He was earlier requested to depose on June 2 however the Lok Sabha member from Wayanad seat in Kerala sought a contemporary date as he was in another country.

Officials mentioned Rahul Gandhi, 51, has now been requested to look on June 13 on the headquarters of the federal company in central Delhi.

His mom and Congress president Sonia Gandhi, 75, has been requested to depose earlier than the company on June 8.

The case pertains to the ED probe into the alleged monetary irregularities within the party-promoted Young Indian that owns the National Herald newspaper.

The company, officers mentioned, needs to document the statements of Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi underneath prison sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

The National Herald is printed by Associated Journals Limited (AJL) and owned by Young Indian Pvt Limited.

The company not too long ago questioned senior Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Pawan Bansal as a part of the investigation.

The questioning of the senior Congress leaders and the Gandhis is a part of the ED’s investigation to know the share holding sample, monetary transactions and position of the promoters of Young Indian and AJL, officers had mentioned.

The company registered a contemporary case underneath the prison provisions of the PMLA after a trial courtroom right here took cognisance of an Income Tax Department probe in opposition to Young Indian Pvt Ltd on the premise of a non-public prison grievance filed by BJP MP Subramanian Swamy in 2013.

The Congress get together had referred to as the ED motion as “vendetta”.

“The Modi government should know that by registering such fake and fabricated cases, they cannot succeed in their cowardly conspiracy,” Congress chief Abhishek Manu Singhvi had advised reporters early this week.