The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued fresh summons to Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, asking him to appear before its headquarters here on June 13 for questioning in a money laundering case linked to the National Herald newspaper.
Gandhi was earlier asked by the agency to depose on June 2 but the Lok Sabha MP sought a fresh date as he was out of the country.
His mother and Congress president Sonia Gandhi, 75, has also been asked to depose before the agency on June 8. Though she tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, the Congress party has said that she was determined to appear before the agency on the scheduled date. The case pertains to the probe into the alleged financial irregularities in the Congress-promoted Young Indian that owns the National Herald newspaper. The paper is published by Associated Journals Limited (AJL) and owned by Young Indian Pvt. Ltd.
The agency is seeking to record the statements of Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
The questioning of the senior Congress leaders and the Gandhis is part of the ED's investigation to unravel the shareholding pattern, financial transactions and role of the promoters of Young Indian and AJL, officials had said.
Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, are among the promoters and shareholders of Young Indian. The ED had registered a fresh case under PMLA after a trial court here took cognizance of an Income Tax Department probe against Young Indian Pvt Ltd on the basis of a private criminal complaint filed by BJP MP Subramanian Swamy in 2013.