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Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi Young Indian Limited have a mazority shareholders and both have a 76% stake. Photo- AI is generated
In the National Herald Money Laundering case, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday said in a Delhi court that Sonia and Rahul Gandhi tried to grab an Associate Journal Limited (AJL) of Rs 2000 crore. This company publishes the National Herald newspaper.
ED lawyer Additional Solicitor General V Raju said AJL was in loss, but despite having assets of Rs 2,000 crore, he took a loan of ₹ 90 crore from AICC and was unable to repay. U
Sonia and Rahul hatched this conspiracy. Young Indian company was formed for this. In which Sonia and Rahul have 76% stake.
AJL had taken a loan of 90 lakhs from the Congress and said that it was not able to repay the loan. After this, the young Indian company acquired AJL, which had assets of 2 thousand crores. The ED said that it was a showy funding, actually no transactions were done with AJL.
In the last hearing, the ED had said on this money laundering that Sonia and Rahul Gandhi got a profit of Rs 142 crore by November 2023.
Ed will seize assets worth ₹ 661 crore In April, ED said in a statement that it issued a notice to take possession of immovable properties worth Rs 661 crore. The ED has submitted documents to the concerned property registrar as per Rule 5 (1) of the PMLA Act and Rule 5 (1) of the Associated Rules, where these are the assets. The ED had demanded the evacuation of the premises to be captured.
Apart from these immovable properties worth 661 crores, AJL’s 90.2 crore rupees shares were attached by ED in November 2023 to secure the income of crime and prevent the accused from destroying it.
The ED also gave notice to Jindal South West Projects Limited on the 7th, 8th and 9th floors of Herald House in Bandra, Mumbai, to transfer the rent/lease amount in favor of the Director of the Enforcement Director every month.
Sonia-Rahul was questioned for hours In June 2022, Rahul Gandhi was questioned 50 hours in 5 days in the National Herald case. Then on 21 July 2022, in the National Herald case, Sonia Gandhi had 12 hours of questions in 3 days. During this time more than 100 questions were raised to him. The ED also questioned Rahul Gandhi for more than 50 hours in five days in June.
What is the National Herald case?
BJP leader Subramanian Swamy filed a petition in Delhi’s Patiala House Court in 2012 and accused Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Congress of Motilal Vora, Oscar Fernandez, Sam Pitroda and Suman Dubey of grabbing the ongoing National Herald newspaper through cheating and money manipulation.
According to the allegation, the Congress leaders created the Young Indian Limited Organization to capture the properties of the National Herald and through it illegally acquired the Associated Journal Limited (AJL) publishing the National Herald.
Swami alleged that this was done to capture the Rs 2000 crore building of Herald House on Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg in Delhi.
Swamy had demanded a criminal trial against other senior leaders of the Congress, including Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, for purchasing a company worth Rs 2000 crore for only Rs 50 lakh.
June 2014, the court issued summons against Sonia, Rahul and other accused. In August 2014, the ED registered a case of money laundering taking action in this case. In December 2015, the Patiala court of Delhi granted bail to all the accused including Sonia, Rahul.
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