Congress' DK Shivakumar appears before ED for interrogation in money laundering case

Bengaluru, September 19: Karnataka Congress President DK Shivakumar, appears before the enforcement Directorate in Delhi for questioning in a money laundering case.

 

The senior congress leader earlier termed the action of the ED as harassment and questioned the timing of the summons when the Congress Bharat JodoYatra was on and when the State Assembly session was underway.

 

 

Shivakumara, who is also an MLA, said he is ready to co-operate but it is coming in the way of discharging his constitutional and political duties.

 

“In the midst of the #BharatJodoYatra and the Assembly session, they have again issued me an ED summon to appear. I am ready to cooperate but the timing of this summons and the harassment I am put through, is coming in the way of discharging my constitutional and political duties,” the former minister tweeted after the ED issued summons to him.

 

 

 

Shivakumar was arrested by the ED on September 03, 2019, in a money laundering case and the Delhi high court granted him bail in October of that year.

 

In May, the federal probe agency had filed the charge sheet against Shivakumar and others in the case based on a complaint filed by the Income Tax (I-T) department which had allegedly found “unaccounted and misreported” wealth linked to the Congress leader.