Synopsis This is the very first time that the Enforcement Directorate has actually called Vadra in the cash laundering case. Vadra, the hubby of Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, has actually been questioned by the ED in the past and he has actually rejected wrongdoing.Robert Vadra under ED scanner over the London residential or commercial property restoration caseNew Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday declared that Robert Vadra, son-in-law of previous Congress president Sonia Gandhi, “refurbished and remained” at a London home which is a “profits of criminal activity” in a cash laundering case versus declared intermediary Sanjay Bhandari. Bhandari left to the UK in 2016 and the British federal government authorized his extradition to India in January this year acting upon the legal demand made by the ED and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The 2 federal companies are penetrating charges of cash laundering and tax evasion versus the entrepreneur for holding supposed concealed properties abroad. This is the very first time that the federal company has actually called Vadra in this case. The ED released a declaration specifying that it has actually submitted a fresh charge sheet in this case versus C or Cheruvathur Chakutty Thampi, a UAE-based NRI entrepreneur, and UK nationwide Sumit Chadha. Thampi was apprehended in this case in January 2020 and the ED declared he was a “close partner” of Vadra. Thampi is presently out on bail. “Sanjay Bhandari held different concealed foreign earnings and properties consisting of the following residential or commercial properties at no 12 Bryanston Square, London and 6 Grosvenor Hill Court, London. “These possessions are profits of criminal activity based on the arrangements of the PMLA and C Thampi and Sumit Chadha have actually been discovered to be associated with the concealment and usage of these earnings of criminal activity,” the ED charged. The probe discovered, it stated, that Thampi “is a close partner of Mr Robert Vadra”. “Mr Robert Vadra not just remodelled the aforementioned residential or commercial property at 12 Bryanston Square, London through Sumit Chadha however
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