New Delhi :The Enforcement Directorate has issued summons to Aam Aadmi Party national secretary Pankaj Gupta in a money laundering case related to former Punjab AAP leader.
"Gupta has been asked to join the probe next week," said a senior officer of Enforcement Directorate, adding that he has been summoned in a money laundering case in which Punjab former AAP MLA and Punjab Ekta Party chief Sukhpal Singh Khaira are being probed. Khaira is being investigated in a money laundering case.
India's premier financial investigative agency - Enforcement Directorate - has also taken cognizance of two separate cases relating to drug trafficking and fake passport registered against Khaira. The ED has alleged that Khaira is an "associate" of drug case convicts and fake passport racketeers. The 56-year-old politician has denied any wrongdoing and had said he is being targeted by Central agencies as he has been vocal against the Centre's farm laws.
The case against him pertains to the probe in a 2015 Fazilka (Punjab) drug smuggling case in which 1,800 gm of heroin, 24 gold biscuits, two weapons, 26 live cartridges and two Pakistani SIM cards were seized by security agencies from a gang of international drug smugglers. Khaira earlier was in AAP and it is alleged that approximately US $1,00,000 donation was raised by him on behalf of AAP in the United States.