Mumbai Rana Kapoor, arrested in the game of money laundering and embezzlement of Yes Bank money, has made a big claim in front of the investigating agency Enforcement Directorate ED. Kapoor says that he was forced to buy a painting of famous painter MF Hussain from Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi. According to Kapoor, he gave Rs 2 crore for the painting. With this amount, Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi was treated in America. In the court, the ED has given place to this confession of Rana Kapoor in its chargesheet. Due to this, now the difficulties may increase once again for Priyanka Gandhi and Congress.
According to the chargesheet, Rana Kapoor told that Murli Deora, who was then the Petroleum Minister, told him that if he did not buy Hussain’s painting, he would not get the Padma award and there would be a problem in building relations with the Gandhi family. The ED has written this in the additional chargesheet filed against Rana, his family, Dewan Housing Finance Limited (DHFL) promoters Kapil and Dheeraj Wadhwa and others. So far, three charge sheets have been filed in this case. Of these, one is the main one and the other two are complementary. According to the ED, Rana Kapoor also told that he had paid 2 crores by check for the painting. Later, Milind Deora told that Sonia was treated with this amount.
According to the ED, Kapoor also lauded Sonia’s political advisor, Congress leader Ahmed Patel for buying the painting. According to Kapoor, Ahmed Patel said that he has done a good job by helping the Gandhi family and now also talked about considering his name for the Padma Bhushan award. The ED chargesheet about Milind Deora says that he said that if he did not buy the painting, then it would have an adverse effect on Rana and Yes Bank. Let us tell you that Rana Kapoor was arrested in the month of March 2020. Since then he is in jail.