The central agency has also summoned Sonia Gandhi but the Congress interim president was undergoing treatment at the hospital for some Covid-related complications and is expected to join the interrogation soon.
New Delhi: Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi was questioned by Enforcement Directorate (ED) on fourth day on Monday in National Herald case. The ED has summoned Gandhi for tomorrow also. The probe agency has questioned the Congress leader for more than 40 hours in the money laudering case.
On Thursday last, the Enforcement Directorate had called Rahul Gandhi for questioning on Friday. Gandhi, however, had requested the ED to push back Friday’s date to interrogate him. Following which the probe agency had shifted the date from Friday to Monday.
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The central agency has also summoned Sonia Gandhi but the Congress interim president was undergoing treatment at the hospital for some Covid-related complications and is expected to join the interrogation soon.
On Wednesday, the ED interrogated Rahul Gandhi for nearly 10 hours while on Tuesday the central agency had quizzed the senior Congress leader for nearly 11 hours. On Monday, the ED had questioned Rahul Gandhi for 10 hours.
On Tuesday, after appearing before the ED, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had met their mother and Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital. Sonia Gandhi was admitted to the hospital for treatment of Covid-related complications.
The ED case is based on an order by a trial court that allowed the Income Tax Department to probe the affairs of the National Herald newspaper and conduct a tax assessment of Sonia and Rahul Gandhi. The order was a result of a petition filed by BJP MP Subramanian Swamy in 2013.
Subramanian Swamy had alleged cheating and misappropriation of funds on the part of the Gandhis in acquiring National Herald. He had also alleged that the Gandhis had acquired properties owned by the newspaper by buying the its erstwhile publishers, AJL, through an organisation called Young Indian in which the Gandhis have 86 per cent stake. Sonia and Rahul Gandhi were granted bail in the case by the trial court in December 2015.
