New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) may soon summon Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi. This summons will be sent for questioning in connection with the investigation of money laundering in the Congress-run National Herald newspaper. If sources are to be believed, the Congress leader may need to be questioned again, as the agency wants to complete its investigation into the irregularities. The agency has already seized assets worth Rs 751 crore in this case. The Rae Bareli MP was earlier questioned by the ED for about 40 hours in four meetings in June 2022.

Sonia Gandhi questioned 

Rahul was first questioned about his role in the daily functioning of Young Indian Private Limited, a company in which he is a partner along with his mother Sonia Gandhi. He was also questioned about the acquisition of Associated Journals Limited (AJL) by YI, a loan of Rs 90.21 crore given to AJL by the All India Congress Committee (AICC) and transactions related to a property in Mumbai. Sonia Gandhi was also questioned in this case for about 11 hours over three days in July 2022.

Abhishek Manu Singhvi called the case unimaginable

Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi said in this case that I have always considered the role of ED in the AJL case as bizarre and unimaginable. Where no property was ever transferred, where there was no transaction of money, let alone the proceeds of crime, and there cannot be, where the ultimate shareholder is a non-profit company, it is neither a transaction of money nor a transaction of property and hence the PMLA law itself does not apply. If ED wants to harass Rahul Gandhi or call him for coffee, it is their wish.