National Herald: Fresh ED summons to DK Shivakumar in cash laundering case

By PTI

BENGALURU: The Enforcement Directorate has summoned Congress Karnataka president DK Shivakumar and his MP-brother D Ok Suresh to depose earlier than the investigating officer on November 7 within the alleged National Herald cash laundering case.

“The Investigation Officer (IO) for the National Herald and Young India case has now changed. Me and my brother received summons day before yesterday (Thursday) to depose with certain documents on November 7,” Shivakumar informed reporters right here.

He mentioned although he has furnished sure paperwork, the ED has requested for a couple of extra, which they’d produce earlier than the IO.

According to him, the ED and the CBI have registered separate instances in opposition to him.

“The ED and the CBI have filed a case against me in the disproportionate assets case. I have moved the Delhi High Court saying that this cannot be done. We have to see what law says,” he mentioned.

He questioned why the probe businesses had been after him.

“I am continuing the legal battle. I don’t know why they are torturing me with their repeated summons,” he mentioned.

The newest spherical of questioning pertains to Shivakumar and Suresh donating an unspecified sum of money prior to now to Young India, the corporate that owns National Herald. The company desires to know the small print of the transactions, sources mentioned.

Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and others like Mallikarjun Kharge and Pawan Bansal have been questioned by the ED over the previous couple of months within the National Herald cash laundering case.

Shivakumar first received within the ED crosshairs when he was arrested by the company on September 3, 2019 following a number of rounds of questioning in a case that emerged from an Income Tax Departmental motion in opposition to him.

The Delhi High Court granted him bail in October that 12 months. In May this 12 months, the company filed a cost sheet in opposition to him and a few others linked to him on this case.

The case was registered after taking cognisance of a cost sheet (prosecution grievance) filed by the Income Tax Department in opposition to them in 2018 earlier than a Special Court in Bengaluru on prices of alleged tax evasion and hawala transactions price crores of rupees.

The division accused Shivakumar and his alleged associates of transporting enormous quantities of unaccounted money regularly via hawala channels with the assistance of three different accused.

BENGALURU: The Enforcement Directorate has summoned Congress Karnataka president DK Shivakumar and his MP-brother D Ok Suresh to depose earlier than the investigating officer on November 7 within the alleged National Herald cash laundering case.

“The Investigation Officer (IO) for the National Herald and Young India case has now changed. Me and my brother received summons day before yesterday (Thursday) to depose with certain documents on November 7,” Shivakumar informed reporters right here.

He mentioned although he has furnished sure paperwork, the ED has requested for a couple of extra, which they’d produce earlier than the IO.

According to him, the ED and the CBI have registered separate instances in opposition to him.

“The ED and the CBI have filed a case against me in the disproportionate assets case. I have moved the Delhi High Court saying that this cannot be done. We have to see what law says,” he mentioned.

He questioned why the probe businesses had been after him.

“I am continuing the legal battle. I don’t know why they are torturing me with their repeated summons,” he mentioned.

The newest spherical of questioning pertains to Shivakumar and Suresh donating an unspecified sum of money prior to now to Young India, the corporate that owns National Herald. The company desires to know the small print of the transactions, sources mentioned.

Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and others like Mallikarjun Kharge and Pawan Bansal have been questioned by the ED over the previous couple of months within the National Herald cash laundering case.

Shivakumar first received within the ED crosshairs when he was arrested by the company on September 3, 2019 following a number of rounds of questioning in a case that emerged from an Income Tax Departmental motion in opposition to him.

The Delhi High Court granted him bail in October that 12 months. In May this 12 months, the company filed a cost sheet in opposition to him and a few others linked to him on this case.

The case was registered after taking cognisance of a cost sheet (prosecution grievance) filed by the Income Tax Department in opposition to them in 2018 earlier than a Special Court in Bengaluru on prices of alleged tax evasion and hawala transactions price crores of rupees.

The division accused Shivakumar and his alleged associates of transporting enormous quantities of unaccounted money regularly via hawala channels with the assistance of three different accused.