Taking a potshot at the agency, Vadra claimed that he would have been celebrating his birthday in the ED office on Friday, if it was not a public holiday.
“There was no new question, all the questions were repeated one,” Vadra said as he walked out of the agency’s office after hours of interrogation.
“If tomorrow would not have been a public holiday, I would have to celebrate my birthday in the ED office,” he added.
Meanwhile, Bharatiya Janata Party continued to train guns at Gandhi family over the money laundering case against Vadra and National Herald case.
During a presser, BJP’s national spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia said “If the earnings of the people have been placed in the fake Gandhi family’s treasury, then it will be collected one by one.”
“I am sure it serves as an eye opener that from being on the ‘no frisk list’ at various airports, they are now on the “no frills list”. There will be no VIP treatment. If you indulge in corruption, you will be punished. If you become a land mafia, the law will catch up with you,” he added.
Vadra arrived at the ED office shortly after 11 am. The agency is questioning him in connection with alleged irregularities in a land purchase made by Skylight Hospitality Pvt Ltd, a company in which Vadra was previously a director.
Over the past two days, he has already been questioned for more than ten hours. Officials said the process of recording his statement under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) would continue.
The case centres on a land deal in Gurugram’s Manesar-Shikohpur (now Sector 83), where Skylight Hospitality bought 3.5 acres from Onkareshwar Properties for Rs 7.5 crore in February 2008.
In 2012, the company sold the same land to real estate giant DLF for Rs 58 crore. The deal was struck when the Congress government, led by Bhupinder Singh Hooda, was in power in Haryana. The deal first came under scrutiny in October 2012, when IAS officer Ashok Khemka, then heading the state’s Land Consolidation and Registration Department, cancelled the land mutation, citing violations of the state’s consolidation laws.
An FIR was later filed by the Haryana Police in 2018, and the ED began investigating alleged money laundering linked to the transaction. The BJP, then in opposition, had called it a case of “corruption” and “nepotism,” pointing to Vadra’s ties to the Gandhi family.