{"id":26937,"date":"2023-11-21T19:26:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T19:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/property-seized-in-money-laundering-probe-linked-to-incs-gandhis-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2023-11-21T19:26:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T19:26:06","slug":"property-seized-in-money-laundering-probe-linked-to-incs-gandhis-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/property-seized-in-money-laundering-probe-linked-to-incs-gandhis-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Property seized in money laundering probe linked to INC’s Gandhis | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nNEW DELHI:
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India’s money laundering investigators on Tuesday said they seized properties worth 7.52 billion Indian rupees ($90.34 million) in a probe linked to a nine-year-old complaint against opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi and his mother Sonia.<\/p>\n

The complaint, lodged by a member of parliament from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2014, accused the Gandhis of forming a shell company and illegally gaining control of property worth $300 million.<\/p>\n

The property belonged to a firm that published the National Herald newspaper, founded in 1937 by India’s first prime minister and Rahul Gandhi’s great grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru.<\/p>\n

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The seized assets include properties spread across Indian cities including New Delhi and Mumbai as well as investments in equity shares, the Enforcement Directorate said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The Congress party, however, termed the move “petty vendetta tactics”.<\/p>\n

“This is a prefabricated structure of deceit, lies and falsehood, of by and for the BJP, to divert, distract and digress in the middle of elections,” Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi said in a statement referring to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).<\/p>\n

Five Indian states are voting to elect new legislatures this month. The regional polls are key, coming ahead of national elections due next year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n