The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has asked Congress president Sonia Gandhi to depose before it on July 21 for questioning in the National Herald newspaper-linked money-laundering case, officials said on to PTI agency.
Senior Congress leader Gandhi was issued a second summons by the federal agency for June 23, but she could not keep the date as she was “strictly advised to rest at home following her hospitalisation on account of COVID-19 and a lung infection.”
Gandhi had sought postponing of the June 23 summons by a month and hence, she has been asked to depose before the agency on July 21, the officials said.
Former Congress chief and Sonia Gandhi’s son Rahul Gandhi MP has been questioned by the ED in connection with the case for over 50 hours in sessions spread across five days.
Soon after the questioning, Rahul said he was not affected by the Enforcement Directorate.
“ED and such agencies don’t affect me, even the officers who interrogated me understood that a leader of the Congress party can’t be scared and suppressed,” the Congress leader said during an interaction with party workers at the AICC headquarters.
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