Overview

• On July 17–18, the Enforcement Directorate lodged a prosecution complaint under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act against Robert Vadra and ten others at Rouse Avenue Court in Delhi.
• The agency issued a provisional attachment order for 43 immovable properties valued at ₹37.64 crore linked to Vadra and entities including Skylight Hospitality and Onkareshwar Properties.
• The chargesheet follows a 2018 FIR alleging Vadra’s company fraudulently acquired 3.5 acres in Shikohpur in 2008 for ₹7.5 crore and sold it to DLF for ₹58 crore by 2012.
• IAS officer Ashok Khemka’s October 2012 cancellation of the land mutation for violating the State Consolidation Act underpins the ED’s money-laundering case.
• Vadra has denied any wrongdoing and called the action a political vendetta, as the court prepares to take cognisance of the complaint.