Home ministry sets up committee to probe transactions of 3 Gandhi family linked trusts

NEW DELHI: The home ministry on Wednesday set up an inter-ministerial committee to coordinate investigations into alleged violation of various provisions of Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), Income-Tax Act, Foreign Contributions Regulation Act (FCRA) etc by three trusts linked to the Gandhi family.

These trusts are, the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust and Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust.

The committee will be headed by a special director of the Enforcement Directorate. Apart from ED, Income-Tax department and home ministry are expected to be represented in the probe committee.

The move comes days after BJP president JP Nadda, in a series of tweets, alleged that public donations made to the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund (PMNRF) were diverted to RGF during UPA tenure.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi is the chairperson of both Rajiv Gandhi Foundation (RGF) as well as Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust (RGCT). Her son and former Congress president Rahul Gandhi is a trustee in both RGF and RGCT, while daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who only last week was asked to vacate the government bungalow allotted to her on security grounds, is a trustee on RGF board. Sonia Gandhi is overseeing affairs of Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust as well. Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is also on the RGF boa