The Enforcement Directorate (ED) made a big statement in the National Herald Money Laundering case. The ED said that if enough evidence is found, then the Congress party can be accused in this case. ED’s lawyer ASG V Raju said this in a special court in Delhi. A daily hearing of this case has started in the court.
The ED claimed that senior Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi conspired to grab property worth 2000 crores of Associated Journal Limited (AJL), a company running National Herald newspaper. The ED says that a company named Young Indian was used in this conspiracy, in which Sonia and Rahul have a 76% stake.
The case started in 2012 with the complaint of BJP leader Subramanian Swamy. He alleged that the Congress gave AJL an interest-free loan of 90.25 crores, which was never repaid. After this, Young Indian acquired all the AJL’s share and property in just 50 lakhs. The ED says that this is a matter of money laundering.
