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Rahul Gandhi asked to appear before ED on June 13

Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi will now have to appear before the Enforcement Directorate on June 13 for questioning in a money laundering case involving the party-owned National Herald newspaper, sources said on Friday. Both Mr. Gandhi and Congress president Sonia Gandhi have been summoned by the central agency after a fresh case in the National Herald newspaper-Associated Journal Limited matter was registered under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. Party's communication chief Randeep Surjewala had said that Ms. Gandhi was determined to appear before the ED and hoped that she would recover by then. The case to investigate alleged financial irregularities of Congress-promoted Young Indian, which owns National Herald, under the PMLA was registered about nine months ago, following a trial court taking cognisance of an Income Tax Department probe against Young Indian Private Ltd. on the basis of a private criminal complaint filed by BJP MP Subramanian Swamy in 2013.

The Hindu

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