AMN / NEW DELHI
Businessman Robert Vadra Wednesday appeared before Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case probe.
Mr. Vadra reached ED office in New Delhi this evening accompanied by his wife Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
Robert Vadra is appearing before the agency in the case related to the alleged purchase of properties in London.
Last week, Delhi court has granted interim bail to Mr. Vadra in this case and had directed him to appear before the ED and cooperate in the investigation.
The agency told the court that it had received information about Vadra’s several properties in London including two houses and six flats.
According to reports the ED Joint Director, Deputy Director and five other officers led the questioning round against Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s brother-in-law.
“All charges against him are wrong. We will cooperate with the agency 100 per cent. He will come whenever he is called,” Suman Jyoti Khaitan, his lawyer told the mmedia personswaiting outside the ED office.
Vadra left the ED office at about 9:40 PM alone in the same car in which Priyanka, his wife and now Congress general secretary, accompanied him earlier in the day.
Reacting on the controversy surrounding her husband, Priyanka said, “Everyone knows what is happening. I stand by my family.”
It is understood he was also grilled about his links with absconding and controversial defence dealer Sanjay Bhandari and Bhandari’s relative Sumit Chhadha in connection with certain emails recovered by agencies linked to the renovation of a London-based property.
BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra alleged at a news conference that Vadra bought 8 to 9 properties in London from the money he got as kickbacks from a petroleum and a defence deal which took place in 2008-09. Patra did not provide any evidence to back his claim.
Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi claimed the charges against Vadra are “fickle, superficial, non-existent, non-substantive”. The BJP had full four and a half years to investigate but could not find anything, he claimed at a news conference.
Vadra was directed by a Delhi court to cooperate with the investigation being carried out by the central probe agency after he knocked on its door seeking anticipatory bail in this case.