New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) may soon call the Congress National Secretary General Priyanka Gandhi for questioning based on statements by former Yes Bank CEO Rana Kapoor. It is possible that Priyanka's cottage near Shimla in Himachal Pradesh is also attached. Actually, Rana has told the investigating officers of the ED that he was forced to buy a painting from Priyanka Gandhi for Rs 2 crore.
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Kapoor said in a statement in Mumbai's ED office on Sunday that former Congress MP from South Mumbai Milind Deora had pressurized him to buy Priyanka Gandhi's painting of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi for Rs 2 crore. The money-laundering prevention law provides for confiscation of money received from an accused or property purchased with that amount. In such a situation, ED can seize the cottage that Priyanka bought in Shimla from the Rs 2 crore received from Rana Kapoor. Sources say that the ED can also question Milind Deora in this matter.
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The Congress party has said that there is no harm in Priyanka selling Rajiv Gandhi's picture made by eminent painter MF Hussain to Rana Kapoor. Congress on Sunday said that Priyanka has also mentioned the amount received from the painting in her income tax returns. However, Deora has not said anything on the allegations leveled against him.