Congress leader DK Shivakumar sent to Enforcement Directorate custody till September 17 by a Delhi court in a money laundering case.
Shivakumar remanded to ED custody till Sept 17
D K Shivkumar
17:55 September 13
Congress leader sent to ED custody till 17 September
17:18 September 13
A Delhi court on Friday reserved order on the plea of Enforcement Directorate seeking 5-day extension of Karnataka Congress leader D K Shivakumar's custodial interrogation.
Special judge Ajay Kumar Kuhar will pronounce the order shortly.
17:06 September 13
ED seeks 5 more days of custodial interrogation of D K Shivakumar
The Enforcement Directorate on Friday sought 5-day extension of Karnataka Congress leader D K Shivakumar's custodial interrogation.
The Congress leader was produced before special judge Ajay Kumar Kuhar.
The probe agency told the court that Shivakumar was evasive and gave irrelevant answers during the interrogation, and many of his properties are 'benami'.
"As per probe against Shivakumar, tainted money is more than Rs 200 crore and there is Rs 800 crore worth 'benami' property, Additional Solicitor General K M Natraj said.
He said the ED needs to confront him with voluminous documents it has collected in the case.
The ED told the court that Shivakumar was withholding information which was solely in his knowledge.
"I am sure he won't answer questions in the next five days either. Why do you need his custody," the judge asked ED, to which the agency replied that there are statements by some other accused and Shivakumar needs to be confronted with that.
The court had allowed ED to interrogate the politician in custody, saying the allegations made against him were serious in nature.
Meanwhile, Shivakumar's daughter Aishwarya had appeared before the ED on Thursday in connection with its money-laundering probe against him, the ED officials had said.
The 22-year-old management graduate was questioned and her statement was recorded under PMLA.
According to the sources, she was also confronted with documents and statements made by Shivakumar with regard to a trip to Singapore he made with her in 2017.
Aishwarya is a trustee in an education trust floated by her father.
The trust, holding assets and businesses worth crores, operates a number of engineering and other colleges and Aishwarya is the main person behind them, they said.
16:31 September 13
D K Shivakumar presented before Delhi court on expiry of his ED custody
New Delhi: Congress leader D K Shivakumar was presented before a Special court at Rouse Avenue Court Complex here on Friday at the end of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) remand period.
Shivakumar was arrested by the law enforcement agency late evening on September 3, after which he was sent to the ED's custody for 10 days by a Delhi court.
A money laundering case was registered by the agency against him in September last year, based on a complaint filed by the Income Tax Department.
The I-T Department, during the initial probe, had found unaccounted and misreported wealth linked to Shivakumar.
The I-T Department also came across money laundering and hawala operations, involving a network of persons across Delhi and Bengaluru.
They had allegedly set up a base in order to transport and utilize the unaccounted cash.
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17:55 September 13
Congress leader sent to ED custody till 17 September
Congress leader DK Shivakumar sent to Enforcement Directorate custody till September 17 by a Delhi court in a money laundering case.
17:18 September 13
A Delhi court on Friday reserved order on the plea of Enforcement Directorate seeking 5-day extension of Karnataka Congress leader D K Shivakumar's custodial interrogation.
Special judge Ajay Kumar Kuhar will pronounce the order shortly.
17:06 September 13
ED seeks 5 more days of custodial interrogation of D K Shivakumar
The Enforcement Directorate on Friday sought 5-day extension of Karnataka Congress leader D K Shivakumar's custodial interrogation.
The Congress leader was produced before special judge Ajay Kumar Kuhar.
The probe agency told the court that Shivakumar was evasive and gave irrelevant answers during the interrogation, and many of his properties are 'benami'.
"As per probe against Shivakumar, tainted money is more than Rs 200 crore and there is Rs 800 crore worth 'benami' property, Additional Solicitor General K M Natraj said.
He said the ED needs to confront him with voluminous documents it has collected in the case.
The ED told the court that Shivakumar was withholding information which was solely in his knowledge.
"I am sure he won't answer questions in the next five days either. Why do you need his custody," the judge asked ED, to which the agency replied that there are statements by some other accused and Shivakumar needs to be confronted with that.
The court had allowed ED to interrogate the politician in custody, saying the allegations made against him were serious in nature.
Meanwhile, Shivakumar's daughter Aishwarya had appeared before the ED on Thursday in connection with its money-laundering probe against him, the ED officials had said.
The 22-year-old management graduate was questioned and her statement was recorded under PMLA.
According to the sources, she was also confronted with documents and statements made by Shivakumar with regard to a trip to Singapore he made with her in 2017.
Aishwarya is a trustee in an education trust floated by her father.
The trust, holding assets and businesses worth crores, operates a number of engineering and other colleges and Aishwarya is the main person behind them, they said.
16:31 September 13
D K Shivakumar presented before Delhi court on expiry of his ED custody
New Delhi: Congress leader D K Shivakumar was presented before a Special court at Rouse Avenue Court Complex here on Friday at the end of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) remand period.
Shivakumar was arrested by the law enforcement agency late evening on September 3, after which he was sent to the ED's custody for 10 days by a Delhi court.
A money laundering case was registered by the agency against him in September last year, based on a complaint filed by the Income Tax Department.
The I-T Department, during the initial probe, had found unaccounted and misreported wealth linked to Shivakumar.
The I-T Department also came across money laundering and hawala operations, involving a network of persons across Delhi and Bengaluru.
They had allegedly set up a base in order to transport and utilize the unaccounted cash.
Also Read: Dead man administered saline in hospital, Odisha govt orders probe
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