Businessman Robert Vadra with wife and Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra arrives at the Enforcement Directorate’s office on the third straight day for questioning in a money laundering case linked to alleged irregularities in a 2008 Haryana land deal case, in New Delhi, Thursday, April 17, 2025.
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Businessman Robert Vadra, husband of senior Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, arrived at the office of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for recording his statement on the third consecutive day in connection with the 2008 Harayana land deal case
On Tuesday (April 15) accompanied by his supporters, Mr. Vadra had walked two-km distance from his residence to the ED headquarters before joining the probe.
The case is related a land deal in Shikohpur of Gurugram done in February 2008 by a company, Skylight Hospitality, of which Mr. Vadra was earlier a director.
The company had allegedly bought 3.5-acre land in Shikohpur from another company named Onkareshwar Properties for about ₹7.5 crore. As alleged earlier, Onkareshwar Properties did not encash the cheque and struck a deal to help the company procure a housing licence through influence in the State government, then under Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda of the Congress party.
The State government gave licence for a commercial project to Skylight Hospitality for the land in alleged violation of rules. The land was then sold to DLF for about ₹58 crore in September 2012.
Published – April 17, 2025 11:46 am IST
