The MP’s Z plus CRPF security waited outside.
The questioning is expected to continue after lunch break.
Vadra was questioned for about five hours on Tuesday and his statement was recorded by the federal probe agency under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), official sources said.
The 56-year-old Vadra had termed the ED action “political vendetta” saying the people of the country “do not trust the probe agencies.” He said he has always cooperated with investigative agencies and has furnished huge amount of documents, stressing that there needs to be a closure in cases which are as old as 20 years.
The probe against Vadra is linked to a land deal in Haryana’s Manesar-Shikohpur (now sector 83) in Gurugram.
The land deal of February 2008 was done by a company named Skylight Hospitality Pvt Ltd, where Vadra was a director earlier, as it purchased a 3.5 acre land in Shikohpur from a firm named Onkareshwar Properties at a price of Rs 7.5 crore.
A Congress government led by chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was in power that time.
Four years later, in September, 2012, the company sold this 3.53 acre land to realty major DLF for Rs 58 crore.
The land deal got into controversy in October, 2012 after IAS officer Ashok Khemka, then posted as the director general of Land Consolidation and Land Records-cum- Inspector-General of Registration of Haryana, cancelled the mutation of this categorising the transaction as violative of state consolidation Act and some related procedures.
The opposition Haryana BJP then had called this case an instance of “corruption” in land deals and that of “nepotism” hinting at Vadra’s kinship with the first family of the Congress party.
Haryana Police had filed an FIR to probe this deal in 2018.
Vadra has been questioned multiple times by the federal probe agency in two different money laundering cases earlier. PTI NES DV DV
