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The Enforcement Directorate has filed a supplementary prosecution ailment against businessman Robert Vadra, hubby of Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, successful a lawsuit involving United Kingdom-based arms trader Sanjay Bhandari, according to bureau sources.
Mr. Vadra has denied his relation successful the lawsuit connected aggregate occasions successful the past. The ailment has been filed nether the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
The bureau alleged that Mr. Vadra assisted Mr. Bhandari and utilized a spot astatine 12 Bryanston Square, London, which was the “proceeds of crime.”
The ED recorded Mr. Vadra’s connection and “confronted” him with grounds gathered from different countries to which helium “did not supply immoderate satisfactory reply.”
Beneficially used
“The grounds gathered by the ED indicates that the spot acquired by Sanjay Bhandari was beneficially utilized by Sh. Robert Vadra for his idiosyncratic use. Since it was recovered that Sh. Robert Vadra was successful possession of proceeds of crime, the ED filed a supplementary prosecution ailment successful Rouse Avenue Court connected November 15, 2025. The tribunal volition present instrumentality up this substance connected December 6, 2025,” said an ED source.
The ED has alleged that Mr. Vadra got the interiors of the London spot done, adjacent though it was bought by Mr. Bhandari. “He utilized to enactment successful the said spot adjacent though the ownership of the spot kept changing...,” the root alleged .
Mr. Bhandari was declared a fugitive economical offender by a Delhi tribunal successful July. India’s petition for his extradition has been turned down by a UK court. He fled to London soon aft the Income-Tax Department conducted searches against him successful 2016.
In 2017, the ED initiated a money-laundering probe against Mr. Bhandari and others, based connected a ailment filed by the Income-Tax Department nether the anti-black wealth instrumentality .The bureau had earlier submitted 2 complaints successful Mr. Bhandari’s case.
Earlier successful July, the ED had filed a prosecution ailment naming Mr. Vadra successful transportation with alleged irregularities successful a onshore woody successful Shikohpur (Haryana).
