Via PTI
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate has wondered and recorded the remark of Alankar Sawai, a detailed aide of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, in a cash laundering case through which TMC spokesperson Saket Gokhale was once just lately arrested by means of the company in Gujarat, officers mentioned.
Sawai was once wondered and likewise faced with Gokhale in Ahmedabad over 3 days previous this week, they mentioned.
A former banker, Sawai is thought of as to be a detailed aide of Gandhi, a former Congress president, and is said to be heading his analysis group.
The federal probe company summoned Sawai after it arrested 35-year-old Gokhale on January 25 whilst he was once within the Gujarat Police’s custody in reference to alleged monetary irregularities in elevating budget via a crowdfunding platform.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED), whilst in quest of Gokhale’s remand on that day, had knowledgeable an Ahmedabad court docket that after he was once requested about Rs 23.54 lakh deposited in his checking account in money over a yr, Gokhale had informed the company that “this quantity was once given in money by means of Alankar Sawai of the India Nationwide Congress for social media paintings and every other consultancy”.
On being requested as to why Sawai had paid him in money, Gokhale said that handiest Sawai can resolution this query, the ED informed the court docket in its remand paper.
“Additional, on being requested relating to any written settlement with Alankar Sawai in recognize of social media paintings he said that it was once handiest verbal settlement with Alankar Sawai,” the company mentioned.
The ED alleged that those money deposits had been recieved by means of Gokhale when he was once a member of the Trinamool Congress (TMC).
Sawai is known to had been wondered about those circumstances and his remark was once recorded beneath the provisions of the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA).
Respectable resources mentioned the wondering and confronting of the 2 has no longer helped them unearth the fund path as said by means of Gokhale whilst Sawai purportedly denied making any money bills.
The cash laundering case towards Gokhale stems from a Gujarat Police FIR.
The state police arrested Gokhale from Delhi in December final yr in a case of alleged misuse of cash he had accumulated via crowd-funding.
The ED had knowledgeable the Ahmedabad court docket {that a} “massive amount of cash accumulated via crowdfunding (by means of Gokhale) has been splurged on speculative proportion buying and selling, wining and eating and different private bills which seem to be extravagant in nature.”
Gokhale, then again, had denied that he misused those budget. The company might query extra other folks connected within the case.
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate has wondered and recorded the remark of Alankar Sawai, a detailed aide of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, in a cash laundering case through which TMC spokesperson Saket Gokhale was once just lately arrested by means of the company in Gujarat, officers mentioned.
Sawai was once wondered and likewise faced with Gokhale in Ahmedabad over 3 days previous this week, they mentioned.
A former banker, Sawai is thought of as to be a detailed aide of Gandhi, a former Congress president, and is said to be heading his analysis group.
The federal probe company summoned Sawai after it arrested 35-year-old Gokhale on January 25 whilst he was once within the Gujarat Police’s custody in reference to alleged monetary irregularities in elevating budget via a crowdfunding platform.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED), whilst in quest of Gokhale’s remand on that day, had knowledgeable an Ahmedabad court docket that after he was once requested about Rs 23.54 lakh deposited in his checking account in money over a yr, Gokhale had informed the company that “this quantity was once given in money by means of Alankar Sawai of the India Nationwide Congress for social media paintings and every other consultancy”.
On being requested as to why Sawai had paid him in money, Gokhale said that handiest Sawai can resolution this query, the ED informed the court docket in its remand paper.
“Additional, on being requested relating to any written settlement with Alankar Sawai in recognize of social media paintings he said that it was once handiest verbal settlement with Alankar Sawai,” the company mentioned.
The ED alleged that those money deposits had been recieved by means of Gokhale when he was once a member of the Trinamool Congress (TMC).
Sawai is known to had been wondered about those circumstances and his remark was once recorded beneath the provisions of the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA).
Respectable resources mentioned the wondering and confronting of the 2 has no longer helped them unearth the fund path as said by means of Gokhale whilst Sawai purportedly denied making any money bills.
The cash laundering case towards Gokhale stems from a Gujarat Police FIR.
The state police arrested Gokhale from Delhi in December final yr in a case of alleged misuse of cash he had accumulated via crowd-funding.
The ED had knowledgeable the Ahmedabad court docket {that a} “massive amount of cash accumulated via crowdfunding (by means of Gokhale) has been splurged on speculative proportion buying and selling, wining and eating and different private bills which seem to be extravagant in nature.”
Gokhale, then again, had denied that he misused those budget. The company might query extra other folks connected within the case.