The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday issued summons to interim Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul in connection with the alleged National Herald money laundering case. The central probe agency has summoned Sonia to join the investigation on June 8 in New Delhi, a case which was closed by the agency in 2015.
The ED has been probing Associate Journals Ltd (AJL), the holding company of the National Herald newspaper, and the role of various Congress leaders under the anti-money laundering law since 2016 after taking cognisance of a Central Bureau of Investigation case.
The agency alleged that the accused in the case, which includes former Haryana chief minister and Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda and late Congress leader Motilal Vora, “used the proceeds of crime” in the form of a land plot allotted illegally to AJL in Panchkula and pledged it to avail loan from a Syndicate Bank branch (Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg) in Delhi for constructing a building in Mumbai’s Bandra area.
This property, valued at ₹16.38 crore, was attached by the ED in 2020.
