New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday (April 11, 2022) questioned Congress veteran Mallikarjun Kharge in connection with a money laundering probe related to the National Herald case. Investigating officers have told that the ED wants to understand some aspects related to the investigation. Hence his statement will be recorded under the 'Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA)'. Let us inform that in this case Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi and former national president Rahul Gandhi are also accused. The investigation into the matter was initiated on the complaint of BJP's Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy.
In 2012, Swamy had filed an application in the court alleging that the Congress leaders had acquired Associated Journals Limited under the company 'Young India Limited'. Mallikarjun Kharge has been an office bearer of Young India and AGL, so the investigating agency is questioning him. Swamy claimed that Young India Limited illegally acquired the properties of National Herald. Subramanian Swamy had alleged that Congress lent Rs 90 crore from his party money to Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi's company 'Young India' and with this money the company 'Young India' of the Gandhi family took over the National Herald newspaper. Associate General was bought. In such a situation, the assets of about 5 thousand crores of the company went into the hands of the Gandhi family. Justice Suresh Kait has asked Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, Congress national general secretary late Oscar Fernandes, Suman Dubey, Sam Pitroda and Young India to respond to Swamy's plea by April 12 on Subramanian Swamy's plea in this matter.
Let us tell you that the publication of the National Herald newspaper started in 1938. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru used this newspaper in the freedom struggle. Nehru created the Associated Journal in 1937, under which 3 newspapers were being published. Navjeevan in Hindi, Quami Awaz in Urdu and National Herald in English. But by 2008 the Associated Journal decided that the newspapers would no longer be published. Then the company had a debt of Rs 90 crore. After this the Congress leadership formed a new non-commercial company named 'Young Indian Private Limited'. In this, Sonia and Rahul Gandhi along with Motilal Vora, Suman Dubey, Oscar Fernandes and Sam Pitroda were made directors. Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi held 76 per cent shares in the new company, while the remaining 24 per cent were held by other directors. Similarly, the ED had earlier attached assets worth Rs 30 crore in Mohali allotted by former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda in the Associated Journals and National Herald case in December 2018.
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