- By Raju Kumar
- Thu, 20 Nov 2025 06:02 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
Robert Vadra Chargesheeted: Trouble mounted for Robert Vadra, 56, a businessman and husband of Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as the Enforcement Directorate filed a chargesheet against him. The PTI sources on Thursday said the probe agency filed a chargesheet against Vadra, in a money laundering case linked to UK-based arms consultant Sanjay Bhandari.
The prosecution complaint has been filed before a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in Delhi, they said. Vadra has been questioned by the ED in the Bhandari-linked case in the past. Bhandari, whose extradition request has been turned down by a UK court, was declared a fugitive economic offender by a Delhi court in July.
The 63-year-old arms consultant fled to London in 2016 soon after the Income-Tax department raided him in Delhi. The ED filed a criminal case against Bhandari and others under the PMLA in February 2017, taking cognisance of the I-T department chargesheet filed against him under the anti-black money law of 2015.
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The agency has earlier filed two chargesheets in his case even as it has been probing Bhandari's links with Vadra related to a house located in London. Vadra has denied that he owned any London property directly or indirectly.
Second Money Laundering Case Against Vadra
With the fresh chargesheet against Vadra, the businessman is facing second money laundering case. Earlier, in July, he was chargesheeted by the Central probe agency in a money laundering case linked to alleged irregularities in a land deal in Haryana's Shikohpur. His office issued a statement later saying the present proceedings were nothing more than an extension of the political witch hunt by the present government against Vadra.
This was the first time that any probe agency has filed a prosecution complaint naming Vadra in a criminal case. The federal investigative agency, sources told PTI, has also attached 43 immovable properties located in Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Gujarat worth Rs. 37.64 crore pertaining to Vadra and his linked entities like Sky Light Hospitality Pvt. Ltd. and others.
(With PTI inputs)