The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned Congress leader Salman Khurshid’s wife Louise Khurshid for questioning in a money-laundering investigation linked to alleged misuse of presidency funds in the distribution of synthetic limbs and gear by a belief headed by her, sources mentioned right this moment (February 10).
She has been requested to depose on the ED zonal workplace in Lucknow on February 15 (Thursday) for recording her assertion beneath the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), they mentioned. Two days again, an MP-MLA court docket in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly issued an arrest warrant in opposition to Louise Khurshid and an one other accused in this case and glued February 16 as the following date of listening to.
Salman Khurshid additionally served as a Union minister in the UPA authorities. The ED case of cash laundering stems from the state police’s FIR of 2017. Special Public Prosecutor Achintya Dwivedi had mentioned that in 2009-10, a programme for distribution of synthetic limbs and gear was organised by Dr Zakir Hussain Memorial Trust for Disabled Persons, run by Dr Zakir Hussain Memorial Trust of Louise Khurshid in Bhojipura space of the district.
The authorities acquired the matter investigated after receiving allegations of discrepancies. It was discovered that authorities funds have been misused through the use of pretend seals and signatures in the programme, he mentioned. There have been three major accused in the case, together with undertaking supervisor of the belief Louise Khurshid, the belief’s consultant Pratyush Shukla and its secretary Athar Farooqui.
Shukla died just a few years in the past. According to the sources, the ED has recorded the assertion of Shukla’s wife and a few others and has now requested Louise Khurshid to hitch the probe. The Uttar Pradesh Police had filed a cost sheet in opposition to each the accused in the court docket.
The court docket had issued summons to the accused a number of occasions however they neither appeared nor acquired bail in the case.
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