Overview

• Businessman Robert Vadra appeared at the ED’s central Delhi office for about five hours on July 14, accompanied by Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, to record his statement under the PMLA.
• Sources said Vadra remained non-cooperative during questioning and failed to answer key queries about his financial links to Sanjay Bhandari and family members.
• The agency is probing two London sites—19 Bryanston Square and Grosvenor Hill Court—as alleged benami holdings treated as proceeds of crime under the PMLA.
• A Delhi court’s July 5 designation of Bhandari as a fugitive economic offender has allowed the ED to move against his global assets linked to the case.
• Vadra, who skipped two summons in June, maintains the enquiries are a political witch-hunt even as he faces three separate ED money laundering investigations.