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In the National Herald Money Laundering case, the Enforcement Directorate i.e. ED has taken major action. In fact, the ED has started the process of capturing the attached properties of Associated Journals Limited (AJL). Let us know that on 11 April 2025, ED has sent notices to the property registrar of Delhi, Mumbai and Lucknow. Apart from this, a notice has also been sent to Jindal South West Projects Limited at Herald House in Mumbai, which has been established on rent on the 7th, 8th and 9th floors of that building. Please tell that now the ED will have to deposit the fare of these three floors every month.
This thing came to the fore in ED investigation
Explain that in the investigation of the Enforcement Directorate, it has been found that there has been a black earning of about 988 crore rupees in this case. For this reason, AJL’s properties were attached on 20 November 2023. Its price has been stated to be around Rs 751 crore. This action has now been approved by the authorized court on 10 April 2024. Please tell that the matter started when Dr. Subramanian Swamy made a complaint about it. He had alleged in the complaint that Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and his colleagues had grabbed AJL’s assets worth Rs 2 thousand crore by paying only Rs 50 lakh.
ED will capture attached properties of associated journals
When the ED investigated the matter, it was revealed that more than Rs 85 crore was manipulated in the name of false fare, artificial advertising and fake donation. Now the ED has started taking action to take these properties in its possession and notices have been pasted to take possession of these properties and the process of taking possession has started. Under this, ED will take possession of different properties.
What is the National Herald case?
In fact, in the year 1937, a company named The Associated Journals was formed. Its investors were a total of 5 thousand freedom fighters, including former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. National Herald, Navjivan and Qaumi Voice newspapers were published by this company. But with time, when this company was taken into losses, the Congress party gave a loan of Rs 90 crore to this company so that this company could be removed from the deficit. Despite this, the company did not get any special success. After this, another company was formed in 2010 named Young India. 76 percent of the shares in this company were with Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. At the same time, Motilal Bora and Oscar Fernandes had 12-12 percent shares. This new company transferred a loan of Rs 90 crore to the Congress. Apart from this, the Associate Journal gave all its share to Young India. Instead, Young India gave only Rs 50 lakh to The Associate Journal. In the same case, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy filed a case and accused him of rigging.
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