The Enforcement Directorate filed a chargesheet against Robert Vadra in a money laundering case linked to a land deal in Haryana's Shikohpur on Thursday.
This is the first time an agency has filed a chargesheet against Vadra, the husband of Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi.
The chargesheet has been filed against Vadra and other accused before a local court under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). He was questioned by the federal investigative agency for three consecutive days in April.
What is Robert Vadra's case about?
The ED has probed into the case linked to a land deal in Haryana's Manesar-Shikohpur (now sector 83) in Gurugram. The deal was made by Skylight Hospitality Pvt Ltd, for which Vadra was a director in February 2008. It purchased 3.5 acre of land in Shikohpur from Onkareshwar Properties at a price of Rs 7.5 crore. The plot was mutated in favour of Skylight the next day and the title of the land was reportedly transferred to Vadra within 24 hours.
About four years later, in September 2012, the company sold the land to realty major DLF for Rs 58 crore. At the time, Haryana was governed by the Congress party led by Bhupinder Singh Hooda.
The land deal was controversial when IAS officer Ashok Khemka, then posted as the director general of Land Consolidation and Land Records-cum-Inspector-General of Registration of Haryana, cancelled the mutation of this categorising the transaction as violative of state consolidation act and some related procedures in October 2012.
An FIR was filed in 2018 against Hooda, Vadra, DLF and Onkareshwar Properties on charges of alleged criminal conspiracy, cheating, fraud and forgery under the provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
Vadra has denied wrongdoing and has said the case was a " political vendetta" against him and his family that comprises former Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi.
The ED is investigating Vadra in two other cases including one against UK-based arms consultant Sanjay Bhandari and a land deal in Rajasthan's Bikaner.
This is the first time an agency has filed a chargesheet against Vadra, the husband of Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi.
The chargesheet has been filed against Vadra and other accused before a local court under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). He was questioned by the federal investigative agency for three consecutive days in April.
What is Robert Vadra's case about?
The ED has probed into the case linked to a land deal in Haryana's Manesar-Shikohpur (now sector 83) in Gurugram. The deal was made by Skylight Hospitality Pvt Ltd, for which Vadra was a director in February 2008. It purchased 3.5 acre of land in Shikohpur from Onkareshwar Properties at a price of Rs 7.5 crore. The plot was mutated in favour of Skylight the next day and the title of the land was reportedly transferred to Vadra within 24 hours.
About four years later, in September 2012, the company sold the land to realty major DLF for Rs 58 crore. At the time, Haryana was governed by the Congress party led by Bhupinder Singh Hooda.
The land deal was controversial when IAS officer Ashok Khemka, then posted as the director general of Land Consolidation and Land Records-cum-Inspector-General of Registration of Haryana, cancelled the mutation of this categorising the transaction as violative of state consolidation act and some related procedures in October 2012.
An FIR was filed in 2018 against Hooda, Vadra, DLF and Onkareshwar Properties on charges of alleged criminal conspiracy, cheating, fraud and forgery under the provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
Vadra has denied wrongdoing and has said the case was a " political vendetta" against him and his family that comprises former Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi.
The ED is investigating Vadra in two other cases including one against UK-based arms consultant Sanjay Bhandari and a land deal in Rajasthan's Bikaner.
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