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TMI BlogED records Robert Vadra's statement in Haryana land deal caseX X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ED records Robert Vadra's statement in Haryana land deal case X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ve to summon him as "political vendetta", Vadra said he has spent hours with the ED earlier during questioning (in separate money laundering cases), sharing thousands of pages but still the agency has been raking up cases against him. The 56-year-old walked down from his residence at Sujan Singh Park in central Delhi to the ED headquarters on APJ Abdul Kalam Road, a two-km stretch. He entered the ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ED office at 11 am along with his lawyer while his security team stayed out. Speaking to reporters on the way to the ED office, he alleged, "This is nothing but political vendetta. Whenever I speak for minorities they try to stop me, crush us... they tried to stop Rahul (Gandhi) in Parliament too. This is misuse of agencies and this is political vendetta". "I will cooperate with them like in ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... the past," he added. Sources said the ED recorded his statement under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) for about two hours. The session is expected to continue during the day. After coming out of the ED office for lunch around 1:30 pm, Vadra told reporters that while he was ready to cooperate with the investigation there needed to be a closure. "How can you be talking about somethi ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ng that happened in 2007?" he asked. He was first summoned in this case on April 8 but he did not depose and sought a fresh date, the sources said. The probe against Vadra, whose wife Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is the Congress MP from Kerala's Wayanad, is linked to a land deal in Haryana's Manesar-Shikohpur (now sector 83) in Gurugram. The land deal of February 2008 was done by a company named Skyli ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ght Hospitality Pvt Ltd, where Vadra was a director earlier, as it purchased a 3.5 acre land in Shikohpur from a firm named Onkareshwar Properties at a price of Rs 7.5 crore. A Congress government led by chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was in power that time. Four years later, in September, 2012, the company sold this 3.53 acre land to realty major DLF for Rs 58 crore. The land deal got i ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... nto controversy in October, 2012 after IAS officer Ashok Khemka, then posted as the director general of Land Consolidation and Land Records-cum- Inspector-General of Registration of Haryana, cancelled the mutation of this categorising the transaction as violative of state consolidation Act and some related procedures. The opposition Haryana BJP then had called this case an instance of "corruption ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... " in land deals and that of "nepotism" hinting at Vadra's kinship with the first family of the Congress party. The Haryana Police had filed an FIR to probe this deal in 2018. Vadra has been questioned multiple times by the federal probe agency in two different money laundering cases. The ED had filed a chargesheet in December 2023 against UAE-based NRI businessman C C Thampi, who is allegedl ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... y linked to Vadra, and Sumit Chadha, a relative of UK-based arms consultant Sanjay Bhandari, saying it was investigating the purchase of three plots of land in Haryana during 2005-06 by Vadra from a real estate agent along with a land deal made by his wife Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. Neither Vadra or Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were named as accused in the chargesheet. Thampi, the ED had said, had purcha ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... sed about 486 acres of land between 2005 and 2008 in Amirpur village in Faridabad in Haryana through H L Pahwa, a Delhi-NCR based real estate agent. "It is imperative to mention that Robert Vadra also purchased three pieces of land measuring 334 kanals (40.08 acres) in Amirpur from H L Pahwa from 2005-2006 and sold the same land to H L Pahwa in December 2010," it said in the chargesheet "Furth ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... er, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra wife of Robert Vadra also purchased agricultural land measuring 40 kanal (05 acres) in village Amirpur, district Faridabad, Haryana, from H L Pahwa in April 2006 and sold the same land to H L Pahwa in February 2010," the ED stated. It said that "Pahwa was receiving cash out of the books for the purpose of acquisition of land". "It was also noticed that Robert Vadra di ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... d not pay the entire consideration to Pahwa. The investigation in this regard is still ongoing," the ED had said.PTI NES DV DV X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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