National Herald Case: Top Telangana Cong Leader Anjan Kumar Yadav Called by ED for Questioning

Last Updated: November 23, 2022, 12:07 PM IST

Congress leader Yadav will be questioned by ED on Wednesday.

Congress leader Yadav will be questioned by ED on Wednesday.

Anjan Kumar Yadav was an MP from the Secunderabad constituency of Telangana.

Senior Congress Telangana leader Anjan Kumar Yadav has reached Enforcement Directorate headquarters for questioning. The central agency had summoned the leader on Wednesday in connection to the National Herald case.

Yadav was an MP from Secunderabad constituency in Telangana.

Earlier this month, sources had said that fresh trouble was on cards for Sonia and Rahul Gandhi as the Enforcement Directorate (ED) was planning to probe deep since it had found “major suspicious transactions” in Congress-owned Young Indian in its probe in the National Herald case.

Transactions of around Rs 4-5 crore found to have been done through shell companies, sources said, adding that the ED has already recorded statements of owners/shareholders/directors of these shell companies.

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Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her MP-son Rahul Gandhi are among the promoters and majority shareholders in Young Indian. Like her son, the Congress president too has 38 per cent shareholding. The case pertains to a probe into alleged financial irregularities in Young Indian, that owns the National Herald newspaper. The National Herald is published by Associated Journals Limited (AJL) and owned by Young Indian Pvt Limited. The newspaper office is registered in the name of AJL.

The ED in August searched the office Young Indian in Delhi as part of the ongoing probe in the National Herald case. The searches, which lasted for more than six hours, were conducted in the presence of senior party leader Mallikarjun Kharge at the Herald House building. The grand old party had also slammed the summons issued to Kharge right in the middle of the Parliament session.

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