NEW DELHI: Days after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) quizzed Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi and her son and former party chief Rahul Gandhi in an alleged money case involving the National Herald, the financial probe agency on Tuesday carried out searches at the office of the newspaper in Delhi and other locations.
An ED source said that the agency sleuths carried out searches at the office of the National Herald located on Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg in central Delhi near ITO.
Besides its office, the ED officials also carried out searches at over 10 to 12 locations, the source said.
The action comes days after the ED questioned Sonia Gandhi thrice for over 17 hours in the case and Rahul Gandhi for over 54 hours for five days.
The ED registered a fresh case about 10 months ago after a trial court in Delhi took cognisance of an Income Tax Department probe. The probe was carried out based on a private criminal complaint filed by former BJP MP Subramanian Swamy in 2013.
Swamy claimed that Young Indian Limited (YIL) “took over” the assets of the defunct print media outlet in a “malicious” manner to gain profit and assets worth over ₹2,000 crores. The BJP leader also alleged that YIL had paid ₹50 lakhs to obtain the rights to recover ₹90.25 crores which AJL owed the Congress party.