National Herald case: Enforcement Directorate asks Rahul Gandhi to rejoin probe for third consecutive day

Rahul Gandhi is being questioned in detail about the ownership of Young Indian Private Limited by the Gandhi family and its shareholding pattern in Associated Journals Limited, the company that runs the National Herald newspaper New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate asked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to rejoin the investigation in connection with an alleged money laundering case related to the National Herald newspaper on Wednesday for the third consecutive day, sources said. Investigators in the ED, sources said, have also asked Rahul Gandhi to describe the circumstances under which AJL was acquired by YIL in 2010, making it the owner of all assets owned by the National Herald newspaper. It is also alleged that AJL’s 9 crore shares are transferred to YIL, and that Rahul Gandhi alone holds 75 per cent shares while Sonia and other senior Congress own the rest. Calling it a case of political vendetta, senior Supreme Court advocate and Congress leader Abhishek Singhvi had said, “This is truly a very weird case — an alleged money laundering case on which summons are issued with no money involved.” The federal agency’s move followed the questioning of senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge and Congress Treasurer Pawan Bansal in April this year in New Delhi in connection with its money laundering probe into the National Herald case.