Pawan Khera after Priyanka Gandhi named in ED chargesheet: Let them conspire

Following the inclusion of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in the Enforcement Directorates ED chargesheet in a money laundering case Congress leader Pawan Khera implicitly criticised the Centre claiming that such moves constitute the start of suspected conspiracies stated a report in ANIKhera told ANI Look at what theyll do ahead of the elections its just the beginning They are not doing it for the first time they do such conspiracies when elections approach Let them do conspiraciesAccording to the charge sheet Priyanka Gandhi purchased and sold a fiveacre agricultural land in Haryana from HL Pahwa a Delhibased real estate dealer in 2006 and 2010 respectively The same agent was linked to transactions with Priyanka Gandhis husband Robert Vadra who had ties with fugitive arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari who is being investigated for multiple financial breachesThe ED according to the report stated that Robert Vadra too purchased nearly 4008 acres of land in Amipur village in 200505 from Pahwa and resold it to him in 2010 The ED the ANI report further mentioned said that Pahwa is the same person who also sold land to NRI businessman CC Thampi The federal agency said that the larger case involved fugitive arms dealer Bhandari who is under probe for money laundering violations of foreign exchange and black money laws and the Official Secrets ActReportedly Bhandari fled to the United Kingdom in 2016 meanwhile Thampi has been accused of facilitating Bhandari to hide the proceeds of crime with a British national of Indian descent Sumit ChadhaAccording to the ANI report ED named Priyankas husband and businessman Vadra in its previous chargesheet related to the case as an alleged aide of Thampi meanwhile in a fresh charge sheet the agency said that Pahwa was receiving cash out of the books for acquiring land and noted Vadra did not pay entire sale consideration to PahwaThe ED is still probing the incident The ANI report cited thee charge sheet as stating It is submitted that Robert Vadra incorporated entities with the names of Sky Light Hospitality Pvt Ltd and Sky Light Realty Pvt Ltd in India on November 1 2007 and November 16 2007 respectively The same has been downloaded from the website of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs Whereas an entity nemed Sky Lite Investment FZE in the UAE was incorporated on April 1 2009 with CC Thampi as its sole shareholderThe charge sheet further read During the course of investigation of Thampi and his Indian entities in the case bearing no T3219HQ2015 being investigated under the provisions of Foreign Exchange Management Act 1999 FEMA it has been found that Thampi purchased land worth 486 actes approx from 2005 to 2008 in village Amipur in Haryanas Faridabad district through one HL Pahwa Delhi NCRbased real estate agentThe chargesheet mentioned Vadras incorporation of Blve Breeze Trading Pvt Ltd in 2007 which was later converted to LLP The email ID of the said entity has always remained as bivebreezetradingzmallcom ic when it was a Private limited entity and later when it got converted into an LLP The incorporation documents of the said entities were downloaded from the website of Ministry of Corporate Affairs It is the same email id on which one Beena an employee of CC Thampi in Dubai used to communicate in connection with the property at 12 Bryanston Square London ANI report cited the charge sheet as sayingDuring the course of investigation in another PMLA case bearing fo ECIROGHIU2018 being investigated against Robert Vadra his entity Sky Light Hospitality Pvt Ltd and others it has been found that one Mahesh Nagar resident of Delhi NCR represented various entities of Robert Vadre at the time of purchase and sale of various pieces of land in DelhiNCR and Bikaner Rajasthan it pointedIn a statement the ED on Tuesday also mentioned Robert Vadra in connection with the purchase of a property in London that is part of the probeDetailing the association between Vadra and Thampi the charge sheet states During the course of investigation in this case it was found that a long and thick relationship exists between CC Thampi and Robert Vadra Not only a personal or cordial bond but common and similar business interests are also found between themThampi arrested in January 2020 ostensibly told ED that he knew Vadra for over 10 years and that they met several times during Vadras visits to the UAE as well as in Delhi