Congress leader DK Shivakumar sent to Tihar jail in money laundering case

The senior leader has reportedly been lodged in the same jail compound as former Finance Minister P Chidambaram.
Congress leader DK Shivakumar sent to Tihar jail in money laundering case
Congress leader DK Shivakumar sent to Tihar jail in money laundering case
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Congress leader DK Shivakumar, who has been accused in a money laundering case, was sent to Tihar jail on Thursday. The senior party leader was undergoing treatment at RML Hospital and was taken to Tihar after being discharged from the hospital.

On Tuesday, the CBI court in New Delhi remanded the senior leader to judicial custody until October 1. 

In the meantime, Lakshmi Hebbalkar the Karnataka Congress MLA from Belagavi, appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Delhi after she was summoned for questioning in connection to the case.

The ED had been probing accusations of money laundering registered against DK Shivakumar since August 2017 when a cash amount of Rs 8.86 crores was found in the his New Delhi residence. He was arrested on September 3 after being accused of setting up hawala networks to launder money. A day later, he applied for bail which the ED rejected stating that Shivakumar would “influence witnesses.”

KM Nataraj, the Additional Solicitor General representing the ED, stated that Shivakumar and his family members held more than 300 bank accounts altogether and had accused him of laundering over Rs 200 crore in cash.

As part of the probe into the case back in 2017, the Income Tax Department found that some transactions made by the party leader were linked to Lakshmi Hebbalkar. Further, when the raids first took place on August 2, 2017, Shivakumar had made a phone call to Lakshmi.

She had earlier been issued a summons by the ED to appear on September 14, but was unable to do so. The summons date was then pushed to September 19.

Prior to this, DK Shivakumar’s daughter Aisshwarya appeared before the ED on September 12 and was questioned for seven hours in connection to the case. At the time, officials from the ED stated that she was being questioned about a trust fund set up in her name. The ED also interrogated her regarding the increase in her wealth between 2013 and 2018. Shivakumar declared that his daughter held assets worth Rs 108 crores, ahead of the 2018 Karnataka State Assembly Elections. However in 2013, she supposedly only had Rs 1.09 crores.

The senior leader has been taken to Tihar jail where he has reportedly been lodged in the same jail compound as former Finance Minister P Chidambaram.

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