{"id":309065,"date":"2019-02-07T05:01:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T05:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309065"},"modified":"2019-02-07T07:11:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T07:11:10","slug":"ed-grills-robert-vadra-for-over-5-hours-called-again-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/ed-grills-robert-vadra-for-over-5-hours-called-again-on-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"ED grills Robert Vadra for over 5 hours, called again on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-309066 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/robert-vadra-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"544\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/robert-vadra-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/robert-vadra.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Businessman Robert Vadra who appeared on Wednesday afternoon before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) which questioned him for more than five hours in a money laundering case and asked him to join the probe again on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Vadra was accompanied by his wife and\u00a0AICC general secretary in charge of eastern Uttar Pradesh, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">She, however, dropped him outside the ED&#8217;s office in Jamnagar House.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Vadra\u2019s lawyer Suman Jyoti Khaitan said his client had cooperated with investigators. \u201cAll the charges against him are wrong. Whatever questions were put to him, he answered all of them. We will cooperate with the agency,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">ED has alleged that Vadra is the controlling beneficiary of a property in London. The property is worth 1.9 million pounds. It was sold by arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari, who is on the run now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The case involves nine London-based properties allegedly owned by Vadra worth several million pounds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Gandhi family has maintained that the cases against Vadra were a \u201cpolitical witch hunt\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Robert Vadra sought protection from the arrest from the court on which the court granted interim bail till February 16.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businessman Robert Vadra who appeared on Wednesday afternoon before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) which questioned him for more than five hours in a money laundering case and asked him to join the probe again on Thursday. Vadra was accompanied by his wife and\u00a0AICC general secretary in charge of eastern Uttar Pradesh, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.\u00a0 She, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":309066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[2423,4280],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309065"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309080,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309065\/revisions\/309080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/309066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}