'Have appeared 15 times, political vendetta', says Robert Vadra as ED summons him again for probe in Haryana land deal case

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) issued a summons for Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s husband Robert Vadra for the second time. The summon was issued in connection with the money laundering investigation that was linked with a Gurugram land deal, as per ANI.

"There is nothing in the case. For the last twenty years, I have been summoned 15 times and interrogated for more than 10 hours every time,” said businessman Robert Vadra who alleged the summons by the probe agency to be a part of a political vendetta. 

" We told the ED we were organising our documents, I am always ready to be here. I hope there's a conclusion today. There is nothing in the case. When I speak in favour of the country, I am stopped, Rahul is stopped from speaking in the Parliament. Bharatiya Janata Party is doing it. This is a political vendetta. People love me and want me to join politics. When I express my willingness to join politics, they bring up old issues to bring me down and divert from the real issues. There is nothing in the case,” said Vadra to ANI. 

Vadra walked down for about 2km, along with his security personnel and a media posse, from his residence at Sujan Singh Park in central Delhi to the ED headquarters on APJ Abdul Kalam Road, PTI reported.

The case pertains to a land deal in Gurugram’s Shikohpur village where Vadra’s firm Skylight Hospitality Pvt Ltd bought a piece of the 3.5-acre land in Shikohpur in Gurugram from Onkareshwar Properties at ₹7.5 crore. According to HT, it is alleged that the mutation was done within 25 hours.