ED files chargesheet against Robert Vadra in Sanjay Bhandari – London money laundering case

The ED’s latest chargesheet accuses Robert Vadra of financial links to fugitive arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari and a suspected London benami asset flagged during Income Tax raids in 2016

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ED revives UK property probe, files new money-laundering case against Robert Vadra

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a prosecution complaint against Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra in a money-laundering case linked to UK-based defence and arms dealer and fugitive Sanjay Bhandari, reviving a long-running probe into alleged foreign assets and illicit financial links.

The chargesheet has been placed before Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court.

This is the second money-laundering chargesheet filed against Vadra. In July, the agency filed a separate prosecution complaint against him in a case related to alleged irregularities in a land deal in Haryana’s Shikohpur.

The ED’s investigation stems from an income tax probe on Bhandari in 2016, which uncovered emails and documents pointing to his links with Vadra and his associates. These materials reportedly referred to the renovation of a London property believed to be owned by Bhandari, which investigators claim was refurbished according to Vadra’s instructions and through intermediaries connected to him. This London property is believed to be a beenami property of Robert Vadra in the name of fugitive Sanjay Bhandari.

Sanjay Bhandari, 63, fled to London in 2016, soon after the Income Tax raids, and was declared a fugitive economic offender by a Delhi court in July. He escaped to London via the Nepal border. Arms dealer Bhandari has links with many people in many parties, including in the ruling BJP.

His extradition request from India was turned down by a UK court. The ED had filed a criminal case against him and others under the PMLA in February 2017, taking cognisance of an income-tax chargesheet filed under the Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015.

Over the years, the ED has filed two chargesheets against Bhandari and has also probed land transactions in Haryana involving Vadra, Bhandari, and individuals linked to both men. Investigators allege these deals formed part of a broader network through which funds were routed and assets acquired.

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