The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday filed a fresh supplementary charge sheet in a money laundering case, involving Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s brother-in-law Robert Vadra and arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari.
According to sources privy to the development, the charge sheet names UAE-based businessman CC Thampi and one other and the same has been filed before Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court.
Special CBI Judge Neelofer Abida Parveen has now kept the matter for hearing arguments on the point of cognisance on November 24.
The case relates to Vadra’s “illegal” acquisition of assets abroad allegedly from Bhandari.
As per the case of the prosecution, Bhandari’s firm Santech FZE had purchased a property from a private firm, which was acquired by Thampi’s Dubai-based company Sky Light, and later changed hands allegedly to Vadra.
Earlier this month, the same court allowed Vadra to travel to Austria and Switzerland for two weeks.
“As the applicant (Robert Vadra) is not named as an accused and there has not been any further material alleged against the applicant other than emails exchanged on the renovation of one immovable property disposed of in the year 2010, it would not be sufficient ground to impose any fetters on the right to movement of the applicant,” Special Judge Parveen said, while granting the said relief.
The court had, however, directed Vadra to furnish a bank guarantee for a sum of Rs 25 lakh in his name.
It further directed that Vadra would not open or close any bank account and would not enter into any kind of property transaction abroad.
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