Robert Vadra, the businessman brother-in-law of the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, appeared before the Enforcement Directorate on the second straight day for his questioning in a 2008 Haryana land deal linked money laundering case.
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Robert Vadra, the businessman brother-in-law of the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, appeared before the Enforcement Directorate on the second straight day for his questioning in a 2008 Haryana land deal linked money laundering case.
He was accompanied by his wife Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the Congress MP from Kerala's Wayanad. The two exchanged hugs before Robert Vadra went inside the ED office.
He was questioned for about five hours on Tuesday, and his statement was recorded by the federal probe agency under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA)
As reported by PTI, Vadra said, "I can see I have become the voice of the people. I’m almost like an activist now. This happened because I responded to the government and continue to fight back against the constant false accusations made against me. The people are with me; I serve them. People would like to see me in politics.
And it is very unfortunate. I feel people don’t believe in the agencies anymore because everyone in the country has realised that the ED and other agencies are being misused to put pressure on those who expose the government라이브 바카라 wrongdoings. The government is trying to create a divide between Hindus and Muslims. All of this is done to distract from the real issues.”
The 56-year-old Vadra had termed the ED action "political vendetta."Earlier
He said he has always cooperated with investigative agencies and has furnished huge amount of documents, stressing that there needs to be a closure in cases which are as old as 20 years.
The probe against Vadra is linked to a land deal in Haryana's Manesar-Shikohpur (now sector 83) in Gurugram.
The land deal of February 2008 was done by a company named Skylight Hospitality Pvt Ltd, where Vadra was a director earlier, as it purchased a 3.5 acre land in Shikohpur from a firm named Onkareshwar Properties at a price of Rs 7.5 crore.
A Congress government led by chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was in power that time.
Four years later, in September, 2012, te company sold this 3.53 acre land to realty major DLF for Rs 58 crore.
The land deal got into controversy in October 2012 after IAS officer Ashok Khemka, then posted as the director general of Land Consolidation and Land Records-cum- Inspector-General of Registration of Haryana, cancelled the mutation of this categorising the transaction as violative of the State Consolidation Act and some related procedures.
Haryana Police had filed an FIR to probe this deal in 2018
Vadra has been questioned multiple times by the federal probe agency in two different money laundering cases earlier.